[Garfie]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I didn't appreciate everywhere shutting down when the Queen passed away though.

Obviously it's a shame that she passed away, but that doesn't mean that the country should have a Covid style shutdown over it imo.

What shut down, though? Nothing shut down in my area, and that certainly wasn’t my experience. A COVID style shutdown would suggest that nothing was open and everyone was isolated, but it was anything but that, as people were coming together and sharing a collective experience as a nation, so I’m not really understanding your point.

Maybe it just hit differently for different people?

I think it’s another case of experiences and perceptions differing