[Merry Mockmas]

Originally Posted by Garfie

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

Shops and events all shutdown during the whole thing.

It was like being in lockdown all over again.