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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.

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  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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

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  • 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

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