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The Knock-On Effect of Lockdown

Desmond79

Jack Straw's Boardgame Café in East Belfast - just before the arrival of Dundonald - has shut down permanently. Disappointed

I remember being there with events with Specialisterne- and winning a round of Blockbusters. (Not only am I old enough to remember Blockbusters being on TV, but I also remember the 'Give us an E' track which began with Bob Holness - Blockbuster by Skin Up)

I fear what might happen to cities like Belfast.

  • in reply to Desmond79

    I appreciate how awkward this is Disappointed

    I'm hoping to stay alive long enough to see community come back again.

  • in reply to .

    Life begins whenever we leave our comfort zone.

    Thanks!

  • Desmond79,

    Firstly I'm going to ignore the stuff about being old because it implicates me!

    and I have been fired from my job recently for isolating my partner is classed as vulnerable and i work in a crowded building or did.

    People don't realise how difficult it is for autistic adults to find a job and then keep it, I just feel stuck a the moment.

    But you know Desmond79 something almost always good come from  where we least expect.

  • in reply to calmerchameleon

    I'm in Cookstown Library for the first time post-Lockdown.

    NEVER AGAIN!

    1. I was made to wipe my screen.

    2. They said that I can't return again without a mask.

    3. The two-factor authentication on my Google Account meant that I had to use my phone - which they might confiscate.

    As Ronald Reagan said, "The nine most terrifying words anyone can hear is 'I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help!'"

  • in reply to Roswell

    Good quote and I agree it's not like it's the end of the world. I was born in the 90s but sometimes feel like anywhere from the 20s to the 80s would have been better. Although when I thought about it more it's not actually the case that it would be "better" because some things have got better and other things have got worse

  • in reply to NAS62563

    "We all want to live in the time just behind us, it's safer. Being on the frontline of change is terrifying." - Marshall McLuhan

    There's a Woody Allen film called Midnight in Paris. The man in the film goes on holiday to Paris with his partner and some other family. Every night he goes out and gets drunk and somehow is meeting people from previous eras of Paris such as the swinging '20s and the Belle Epoque. So he meets Ernest Hemingway and famous impressionist painters. And in each time period the characters he talks to say they wish they had lived in a previous era, a golden age. 

    Maybe we're all just scared of change. I'm being contrarian... but just putting it out there. I find it sad too though that nice things are being lost. Just trying to put a contrasting perspective in.

  • This has been the case all over the country with businesses shutting down and I really think that the knock-on effect of the lockdown is much worse than what would have happened without one but the government didn't know what to do or want to be blamed for more deaths

  • I'm sorry to hear that Desmond. It is very sad that we are beginning to lose very valued places, venues and more.