covid

…for projects and services, and meaningful cut-through as quickly as can possibly be managed. *** The loneliness caused or exacerbated by COVID-19 will outlast COVID-19. Although it seems dissonant to…

There is something about emerging from lockdown from the dread beast COVID that is akin to the end of a war. The bombs have stopped, blackout has been repealed, and…

…Covid pandemic. Our government, like other governments of wealthy nations, buys up vaccines to protect the population. Meanwhile millions of people in poorer nations go unvaccinated, unprotected, and today we…

…if healthy older people have been delivered a bad time by government COVID policies, frailer people are having it worse. They will hear in the media that some hospital doctors…

…It considers tangled histories of loneliness and care, explores narratives from family carers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and situates carer loneliness within broader political structures of marginalisation and abandonment. This…

Gabriel Lawson writes about prisoners-of-war dealing with isolation and its absence in the next post for our series on ‘Solitude in the Time of COVID-19’….

…is for most people not an everyday experience. But COVID-19 has radically changed this. For people living on their own, physical solitude has become the norm. This was especially true…

…Scott’s admission to hospital for ‘minor surgery’. No details, except the issue was ‘not serious or COVID-related’. In early August I received another email saying Scott was still not well…

Loneliness has been called a ‘modern plague’. COVID-19 spreads that plague in differing ways: changing our relation to each other in public spaces and private homes, transforming our civic behaviours…

…rely on their families for company. COVID-19 has presented major challenges to both sorts of people, especially during lockdown when households were required to isolate and children were kept home…