So it's exactly 5 years to the day since we should have gone into lockdown to mitigate covid about 3 weeks ago.

it isn't often mentioned that an earlier UK #lockdown could have been much shorter - because the rise in cases is much steeper than the decline. Leaving it until the last minute not only cost lives but also worsened the economic and psychological impact. #Covid19 #PublicHealth

Vage, verdrängte Erinnerungen: Heute vor 5 Jahren brach ein neu angefangenes Leben zunächst zusammen.

Ich mischte den Ton eines Live-Streams mit dem #Liedermacher #TobiasDellit, in einer Küche irgendwo bei Stuttgart. Es sollte einer der ersten von vielen Live-Streams sein, die meisten ehrenamtlich, Ende des Jahres 2020 dann auch bezahlt. Schlecht bezahlt zumindest in der Kultur.

Im Februar 2019 hatte ich mich hauptberuflich in der #Veranstaltungstechnik selbstständig gemacht. Man fängt klein an, Gründungszuschuss, unterbezahlte Aufträge, irgendwie reinkommen, und es lief schnell zumindest einigermaßen: Es sah gut aus.

22. März 2020, gut ein Jahr später: Komplett-Verbot aller Veranstaltungen. #Ausgangssperre. #Lockdown. Vollbremsung, mit der Fresse auf einer Wand aufschlagend, das war das Gefühl.

Manchmal sagt jemand: #Aufarbeitung der #Corona-Zeit, das müsste man mal machen.

Dann geht's weiter mit Trump und Putin. Ich finde im Archiv Fotos mit Masken am Mischpult und jedes Mal friert es mich innerlich.

Die Corona-Aufarbeitung lässt weiter auf sich warten

Vor fünf Jahren gab es in Deutschland den ersten Corona-Lockdown. Nach wie vor wird um die Aufarbeitung gerungen. Was sagen die Gesundheitsminister Spahn und Lauterbach dazu? Von Birthe Sönnichsen.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/corona-aufarbeitung-110.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

Heute vor 5 Jahren begann in Deutschland der 1. #Corona-#Lockdown. Wie #Museen damit umgegangen sind, welche Sammlungs- und digitalen Aktivitäten sie z.B. entfaltet haben, hat seinerzeit unsere #Expokritik-Redaktion beobachtet:

Sebastian Kühn, Andreas Ludwig, Pavla Šimková & Lotte Thaa, Corona im #Museum, #WerkstattGeschichte 84/2021, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/monogamie/

@museum @histodons @historikerinnen @archivistodon @histstm

Fünf Jahre nach dem ersten Corona-Lockdown zeigt eine Studie der Uni Oldenburg und des Leibniz-Instituts für Bildungsverläufe, dass das politische Vertrauen in Deutschland durch die Pandemie deutlich zurückgegangen ist und sich teils auch nicht mehr erholt hat. Betroffen sind politische Institutionen, Polizei und Medien. Hier geht es zur ganzen Meldung:

https://uol.de/pressemitteilungen/2025/040

UOL / Diverse (siehe Bilder)

Fünf Jahre nach dem ersten #Lockdown: Welchen Einfluss hatte #Corona auf #Bildungsbiographien?
Die Berichtsreihe "NEPS Corona & Bildung" beschäftigt sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten und Folgen des Lockdowns: von Schulschließungen über Homeoffice bis hin zur sozialen Situation älterer Menschen und der Entwicklung von mathematischen Kompetenzen bei Kindern.
Alle Ergebnisse zum Nachlesen: https://www.lifbi.de/de-de/Start/Aktuelles-Medien/Neuigkeiten?details=fuenfter-jahrestag-lockdown-das-nationale-bildungspanel-zeigt-wie-corona-bildungsbiografien-beeinflusst-hat
Welche Erkenntnisse überraschen Sie am meisten? Diskutieren Sie mit!

Erinnert ihr euch noch? So ausgestorben sah es vor 5 Jahren in Bahnen, Bussen, Bahnhöfen und auf den Straßen in #Hamburg aus. Lange Fotostrecke mit bisher unveröffentlichten Bildern hier: https://www.nahverkehrhamburg.de/fuenf-jahre-corona-so-geisterhaft-leer-war-der-nahverkehr-in-hamburg-damals-207836/ #hvv #corona #lockdown

Erinnert ihr euch noch? So ausgestorben sah es vor 5 Jahren in Bahnen, Bussen, Bahnhöfen und auf den Straßen in #Hamburg aus. Lange Fotostrecke mit bisher unveröffentlichten Bildern hier: https://www.nahverkehrhamburg.de/fuenf-jahre-corona-so-geisterhaft-leer-war-der-nahverkehr-in-hamburg-damals-207836/ #hvv #corona #lockdown

Segnali di cedimento nervoso alla seconda settimana di confinamento, cinque anni fa

Quando ho scritto il primo toot probabilmente cazzeggiavo, ma il secondo fu scatenato da un cedimento, me lo ricordo bene

https://mastodon.bida.im/@leodurruti/103837286000020180

https://mastodon.bida.im/@leodurruti/103840693692815968

One of the most illustrating picture of #lockdown efficiency in limiting #covid impact on the healthcare system (in France). Now, try to imagine the first 3 curves with no lockdown by looking at the 4th.

Cinque anni fa, in piena seconda settimana di confinamento domiciliare, si manifestava la supremazia freak:

https://mastodon.bida.im/@leodurruti/103832085655233499

Fünf Jahre nach dem #Lockdown
#Schweiz #Corona
https://www.tagblatt.ch/leben/bildstrecke/16-maerz-2020-erinnern-sie-sich-noch-wie-die-schweiz-stillstand-der-lockdown-in-bildern-ld.2746271

Today in #Bologna we are nearly in full #covid #lockdown remembrance day: all schools are closed, so the two children are forced to stay home, the parents have both to give online university teaching, we cannot go outside, the fridge is full.
What's missing?
Even novax are replaced almost 1-to-1 with #climatechange deniers and there are conspiracies already about the climate control by illuminati.

(at the moment though: persistent rain but no floods)

Pandemic Memories, Five Years On

At the start of my Computational Physics lecture at 9am this morning I suddenly remembered that it was the corresponding day five years ago that Covid-19 pandemic restrictions were introduced in Ireland. The date for that was Thursday March 12th 2020, while today is Thursday March 13th 2025, but it was the same stage of of the semester, the Thursday before St Patrick’s Day and the mid-term Study Break.

One thing I remember quite well from that day five years ago was that I told my Computational Physics class to keep an eye on their email during the day as I thought an announcement would be made. When it came – around lunchtime, if memory serves – it was much stricter than I had anticipated: from 6pm that day, all schools, colleges and cultural institutions were to close until 29th March. Few people believed that would be the end of it, and we were right!

I had a computing laboratory session that afternoon, which went ahead, but some students understandably left early as they had to find their way home. The next time I interacted with any students it was online, and remote working carried on for many months, not just the two weeks originally planned. I did not envisage it would last so long. Nor did I imagine how little support teaching staff would receive from management. Indeed, the University saw the opportunity to build up large surpluses during the lockdown, all generated by the huge amount of extra, unacknowledged and unrenumerated, work put in by academics and support staff. That’s all money that should have been spent on the education of students. It was never going to be easy to teach during lockdown, but deliberately withholding resources made it far harder than it had to be.

Among other things, the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions played havoc with my perception of the passage of time and messed with my memory. I remember some things very clearly, such the lecture and lab on the day the restrictions were announced, which seem like they happened a few weeks ago never mind five years. Other things are like ancient history. Several major life events took place during the Covid-19 period period that I find it hard place in chronological order without looking at written records (including this blog).

I am not an expert on such matters but it seems to me that the isolation, disruption of social interaction, and the loss of familiar routines imposed by work are among the things responsible for distorting one’s perception of the passage of time and powers of recall.

It was not just the disruption to routine of course. There was also a genuine fear of becoming infected. From time to time after my last in-person class on March 12th 2020, I wondered if I would ever see those students again. I also made arrangements to write a will. For a time it looked likely that intensive care facilities in Ireland might be overwhelmed so I felt it important to make contingencies of that sort. Fortunately they weren’t needed. As far as I know the Coronavirus never reached me, though I think even those of us who were never infected by Covid-19 were definitely affected by it.