“It’s been quite a year”
“It’s been quite a year” Omicron serves as a good reminder to how we started this year. It could have been easy to forget that January started in lockdown. Remember that? Mask-wearing, social-distancing, home-schooling, Boris-watching, walk-going, this-is-never-going-to-end lockdown. So as our masks go back on, we’re reminded of just how far we’ve actually come. In those early days of January most of us hadn’t had our first vaccine yet, let alone a booster; Trump was still in office; Jeff Bezos hadn’t been into space; and Peppa Pig still hadn’t had the pleasure of Boris’s company. It was hard to imagine what was to come: the end of lockdown, getting vaccinated, hugging our friends, seeing family members we’d not seen for many months, going on holiday, reopening our businesses, falling back…
