2020 B.C. Before Covid The Stiff Upper Lip in Pandemic Time.
Covid-19 And The Stiff Upper Lip
A Journey Through Pandemic Times and UK Memories
Not Talking About the Pandemic Was Like Denying Gravity
Back in The U.K. after a visit to Ireland.
Not talking about The Pandemic is like denying gravity exists. That ostrich approach of sticking our collective head in the sand will not delay or deny the medical catastrophe, the logistics nightmare and the financial Armageddon that each of us experience in our own idiosyncratic ways.
Call it malignant optimism, but the shared hallucination that it is "just the flu" is junk science. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger but make no mistake about it: This virus can kill. It doesn't have a brain, but we do.
Careers are on hold, people are in limbo, and there are only two ways this epidemic will end: Medically, probably never. Socially, whenever we personally decide to take risks.
The Czech Is In The Mail Stimulus Check? No. Wear a mask? Yes
Until then, it is social distancing, hand washing and masks. Not being a mask-loving people, The English embraced the mask early during the pandemic, as it proved to be one of the more effective public-health responses to this epidemic. My colleague Mike Jones in The Czech Republic likewise had this best practice and trailblazing rule in March, and one of the strictest enforcement codes, that is now a symbolic landmark in the fight against The Pandemic.
We remain hopeful as the human desire to socialize will survive the pandemic. We have only to look at the past to see our future. Think of The Roaring 20's after the Spanish Flu. Once this is behind us, prepare to Party Like It's B.C. Before Covid 1999.
London and the UK, Seen Through Pandemic Time
Covid 19 And The Stiff Upper Lip
Covid 19 And The Stiff Upper Lip
Tower Bridge
Tower Bridge - Can't Be ThameD
River Thames
At 215 miles (346 km), The River Thames is the longest river entirely in England
Shakespeare Globe Theatre
Where there is a Will, there is a play - Shakespeare Globe Theatre
Victoria Station
Notes from the underground - Victoria Station
Tower of London
A slice of history - "Execution is everything" @ The Tower of London
Must-Watch Travel Experience
Must-Watch Travel Experience
Travel Memories in Motion
Thames River Journey
Shakespeare Globe Theatre
Irish Sea Adventure
Cornwall Coastline
Portland UK Rocks
Portsmouth Navy Blue
Dublin Guinness Experience
Arctic Highway Norway
North Cape Adventure
Flåm Norway Mountains
Full Catastrophe Living
Full Catastrophe Living
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B.C. - Before Covid
Circa February 2020... B.C. Before Covid
They call it Planet Earth but it's mostly covered in blue ocean. The United Kingdom is an island nation. I came by sea, by chance. I stay on land, by choice... Worth Seaing:
July means Sailing to Norway, but not in 2020... Let's remember the journeys that shaped our understanding of travel, adventure, and the precious nature of human connection.