Today marks three years since the start of the first lockdown. Even after all this time, it still feels hard to process quite what we all went through together.
Perhaps, the fact that there was never a clear ending, that waves of infection are continuing to circle the globe, and that we will never be fully free of the virus, mean that there has yet to be a definitive place to look back from.
Maybe, the reality that for the first time in living memory, the entire world was drawn into the same crisis at the same time made the scale too big to take on board as a single event. The impact of the pandemic into every aspect of our lives and the toll it wrought too big to see in its entirety.
With 219,000 UK deaths from COVID-19, more than double the number of British soldiers lost in the Battle of the Somme, it feels as though we have let go of what happened far too easily, cocooning ourselves in the utter fiction that those who died were so old or infirm that they were already close to death.
On this National Day of Reflection, we have the chance to try to understand what has happened, to recognise the enormous loss which many of us suffered, and to try to learn the lessons as we rebuild.
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