Everyone talking about the "This time last year..." I remember watching the news and stocking up... and thinking that the issue would be people. I was treating it like avoiding town during Christmas, I thought we'd have a bit of people panic-buying and then all settle down.
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Going to my flatmate and explaining they just shut Italy was such a shocker at the time. That was 1st March 2020. Even then, I still had plans to go out places, an event on the 13th etc. It didn't really sink in to that degree until mid month.
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Replying to @OiShinyThings
Yeah I was still having coffee and hanging out but I had a conference planned and I was the only person who was like, maybe we should cancel, things look bad in Italy. And then when we got our first case and our uni shut down on Mar 12 I thought it would just be for a few weeks.
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It's so weird because I remember specifically saying to my flatmate that I didn't think there *would* be major food shortages etc, but that I expected people would get panicky so maybe just buy everything today and skip Asda for 2 weeks?
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Three weeks later, and it was one trip a week to the supermarket with guards enforcing the queue and tape arrows on the floor... (I've still been sticking to 2 trips a week to town, to limit exposure.)
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Replying to @OiShinyThings
We were doing two trips too, but now it feels so weird that we spent so long not wearing masks. I don’t think I started wearing them until like, May or June.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I started with just a bandana fairly early on, but yeah.
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Replying to @OiShinyThings
I had started wearing a bandana too I think, maybe in April or May? I don’t quite recall. And also those dust masks for painting and stuff you can get at hardware stores.
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We started going to this fancy small local shop to get pasta and stuff, way more expensive but it was easier than fighting with someone in tesco haha.
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I remember the local subreddit had posts saying what was in where "I've just (11:30) been to city centre Lidl and they've got some eggs and brown rice, no pasta, loads of sugar."
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Yeah I remember that too for Dublin! And a lot of places started pivoting to grocery delivery.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
And then it moved on to fighting over delivery slots!
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Lol yeah having to book three weeks in advance for any slot...
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