I was never active on Twitter until the Lockdown started in March 2020. WordPress was my chosen social media platform, but I didn't get a specifically anti-lockdown blog going until November 2020. I covered stuff from a local perspective and would tweet the blog posts as appropriate. Fortunately, one of the people who followed me on Twitter had a fairly large following and he would sometimes kindly tweet my blog posts.
So my old blog, subsequently renamed a a freedom blog, I ran from November 2020 until October 2021, the linked Twitter account having been suspended (I don't know why) that August. This is an Afterword that I did a year ago to tie it all together. I've heard people saying to me that they wish that they had kept a diary. Well I did that essentially, compiling relevant photographs before I even I thought about putting them into a blog.
That's great that you documented everything. I mainly just had a bunch of sticky notes all over the place with questions about what was going on when things first started with C19. I wish I had taken pictures of how disturbing things got, between the closure of parks and the boarded up windows because of the BLM protests. Then again, I don't know if I'd want to visually reminisce about those things the way I do with photos from the nicer parts of my life. Haha!
I already had an active WordPress blog going for various rants and rambles., so I did some posts on that but I stopped updating it at the end of October 2020 and started the anti-lockdown blog mentioned above. One of the posts on that old, now dormant, WordPress blog, featured a photograph of a local skatepark barriered off to protect against 'the virus'; and what I perceived to be the docile compliance of Generation Z in not doing anything to challenge that. A year ago I updated and extended that post for my current blog, including pictures of a kids' play area taped off for the same reason. Here then is that revised blog post:
That photo gives me PTSD. I remember how angry all those blockades made me every time I saw them. What made me even angrier was that, after they removed the physical blockades, there were people patrolling our green spaces and play areas in order to shoo us away if we dared go outside. Sometimes it was the cops, sometimes it was "concerned" citizens who couldn't just mind their damn businesses.
I was never active on Twitter until the Lockdown started in March 2020. WordPress was my chosen social media platform, but I didn't get a specifically anti-lockdown blog going until November 2020. I covered stuff from a local perspective and would tweet the blog posts as appropriate. Fortunately, one of the people who followed me on Twitter had a fairly large following and he would sometimes kindly tweet my blog posts.
So my old blog, subsequently renamed a a freedom blog, I ran from November 2020 until October 2021, the linked Twitter account having been suspended (I don't know why) that August. This is an Afterword that I did a year ago to tie it all together. I've heard people saying to me that they wish that they had kept a diary. Well I did that essentially, compiling relevant photographs before I even I thought about putting them into a blog.
https://warwickfreedom.wordpress.com/2022/04/03/afterword/
That's great that you documented everything. I mainly just had a bunch of sticky notes all over the place with questions about what was going on when things first started with C19. I wish I had taken pictures of how disturbing things got, between the closure of parks and the boarded up windows because of the BLM protests. Then again, I don't know if I'd want to visually reminisce about those things the way I do with photos from the nicer parts of my life. Haha!
What a strange time we're living in.
I already had an active WordPress blog going for various rants and rambles., so I did some posts on that but I stopped updating it at the end of October 2020 and started the anti-lockdown blog mentioned above. One of the posts on that old, now dormant, WordPress blog, featured a photograph of a local skatepark barriered off to protect against 'the virus'; and what I perceived to be the docile compliance of Generation Z in not doing anything to challenge that. A year ago I updated and extended that post for my current blog, including pictures of a kids' play area taped off for the same reason. Here then is that revised blog post:
https://warwickvegan.wordpress.com/2022/04/17/mass-psychosis/
That photo gives me PTSD. I remember how angry all those blockades made me every time I saw them. What made me even angrier was that, after they removed the physical blockades, there were people patrolling our green spaces and play areas in order to shoo us away if we dared go outside. Sometimes it was the cops, sometimes it was "concerned" citizens who couldn't just mind their damn businesses.