It is a good reminder of the madness we lived through and that it was all real. It already feels so surreal.
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I recall cycling through the countryside when there was a travel ban in place.
I could the road for miles ahead of me.
Every time I seen a car, I concealed myself and my bicycle behind the brush until the car passed.
I'll never forget how surreal that felt.
It is important to remember.
The fact that riding a bike can become a crime highlights nothing is guaranteed and we have to fight to preserve whatever rights we do have.
It was definitely a strange time.
My most surreal moment in the lockdowns was driving home from work one night, stopped at a set of traffic lights in the cbd, with no one else on the road and me wondering why I bothered stopping. Just as that thought passed through my head, a kangaroo hopped its way through the intersection. It felt weirdly apocalyptic, that nature reclaimed such a human space within 2 weeks. It reminded me that humanity is just a speck and nature would move on without us very quickly and easily.
It certainly showed the fragility of what we consider “normal”