The Covid Cycle - Part 1
While we emerge from our Covid spring after 18 months of rolling lockdowns sometime in the future I am going to look back and ask myself what happened during covid in 2020 and 2021. How did my family and I get through living in Melbourne, one of the world’s most locked down cities (263 days) over that 18-month period from March 2020 to October 2021? In recent times I’ve started to look at this blog differently. I haven’t kept a journal since my mid-twenties, so if my children want to know more about what I thought about something or my lived experience, here it is, just in case they forgot to ask. Living through covid was a remarkable experience from a multitude of perspectives as a partner, a parent, a son, a friend, a manager and a cyclist, well this is a cycling blog after all. More about cycling in part 2 of the Covid Cycle. The storm was brewing from afar in China and the USA in January 2020, where deaths were being attributed to a novel corona virus. Whilst we