Sunday 21 March 2021

For 23rd March, National Reflection Day

 


The 23rd of March marks an exact year since the UK went into lockdown in 2020 and since that time the human cost of this pandemic and its knock on effects is something difficult to even grasp.

It has been marked as a day of reflection, remembering the people who have passed during this time. I think especially of the brave men and women in the health services who came out of retirement to help in a time when so much about Covid 19 was unknown, and the appalling lack of PPE made such decisions indescribably heroic.

Despite the near full stop that's happened since, to life as we know it - time marches on and that is the biggest tragedy of this - Not just the loss of life itself, but the loss of living. The experiences we would have had, the added difficulty of grief in a time without the possibility of human touch; when a simple hug isn't simple at all.

For this and a whole host of other reasons too personal to write about, I wanted to make something in commemoration of the significance of this day, These items are available both at Oddfish and on MP as a gift that you can pass on as my small way of contributing.

Together is really the best way that we'll get through this. Let's look after each other.

If you'd like to find out more about this day, do read :


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