One good thing about Covid Lockdown; it gives people a taste of ‘forced isolation’ (rant)

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Many people are isolated today even in non-lockdown conditions due to things like not having people available to meet-up with or visit or living in an area where there’s a lack of things you can go to on your own.

By ‘forced isolation’ I mean being on your own or forced to do things on your own due to;

  • Having no-one available to meet-up with
  • Having no-one to visit
  • Having no-where you can go on your own (lockdown doesn’t make an iota of difference if you’re living somewhere where there aren’t any such places)
  • Having the choice of going to a pub on your own where you know no-one or being cooped-in (lockdown makes no difference)

Lock-down forces these conditions on people who’ve always had those luxuries and taken them for-granted. Here’s the scenario in more detail.

The binary choice; going to pub on your own or be cooped-in; lockdown vs. normal

If your social life is that you are forced to be on your own due to

  • having nobody to meet-up with
  • there being no events, classes, meetups etc. you can go to on your own

And the only alternative to being cooped-in is to go to a pub on your own, it doesn’t make a blind bit of difference whether pubs are open or whether there’s a bloody pandemic and a lockdown.

Going to pub being the only social life you have; lockdown vs. normal

The second scenario is suppose you do have a social life, but the current group of friends are ones who’re only available for going out drinking. The rest of the time you’d forced to be on your own. The only difference here is that there’s no pub, the rest of the time it’s ‘forced isolation’ as it was before.

Making new friends; lockdown vs. normal

The only thing lockdown prevents (in theory) is meeting new people. Guess what? It doesn’t mke a BLIND BIT OF DIFFERENCE since the social environment was CRAP to begin with, especially in areas with no clubs, meetups, classes and all the other avenues! The fact that things aren’t drastically different in that regard with a full lockdown is proving is just how bad England is for meeting people.

Pubs closed; lockdown vs. non-lockdown

The only difference is that you can’t go to the pubs to meet-up with mates.

Concluding

I hope lockdown makes those people who’ve had a very active social life and an active dating life who’ve TAKEN IT FOR-GRANTED appreciate it. This is real ‘forced isolation’ but it isn’t drastically different from the ‘forced isolation’ the above discussed circumstances can result in during normal, non-pandemic lockdown conditions.

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