{"id":284,"date":"2020-03-23T23:05:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T23:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/?p=284"},"modified":"2020-03-23T23:05:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T23:05:58","slug":"covid-19-diaries-day-one-lockdown-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Diaries. Day One- Lockdown begins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/martin-sanchez-ZhohBpo9dKs-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-285\"\/><figcaption>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@martinsanchez?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Martin Sanchez<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/s\/photos\/lockdown?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\">Unsplash<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Watchet, Somerset, UK, 23:01<\/p>\n\n\n<p>This evening, Boris Johnson announced strict restrictions on the movement of people in this country. We are in lockdown from midnight tonight for at least three weeks. I am and will be at home with my wife, kids and dog.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>I thought it would be a good idea to keep some kind of diary during this experience, both as a record to look back in time but also as a self-care strategy, or even to keep my sanity intact through what is going to be a challenging time.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>I have, since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, been amazed by the variety and diversity of human behaviour. I have seen amazing acts of courage, compassion, kindness and humanity. I have also observed the most selfish, discriminatory and cruel attitudes towards human beings, especially the vulnerable. I guess that situations like these amplify personality traits: an arsehole becomes a massive arsehole and a nice person becomes a wonderful human being. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>I am neither a glass half empty nor a half full kind of guy. I am merely grateful that I have a vessel that I can drink out of. My life&#8217;s experiences have taught me to not despair when everything seems lost and that, if we pull together, this too shall pass.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Each entry of this blog will have a link to a song which I feel relevant as well as a record of the current statistics on COVID-19 as published by the John Hopkins University on: https:\/\/gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/opsdashboard\/index.html#\/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s song is by Love: Everybody&#8217;s gotta live<\/p>\n\n\n<p>OneLove, OneHeart<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Everybody\u2019s Gotta Live\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DhcYGJNC9Us?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>World-wide confirmed cases: 375,458<\/p>\n\n\n<p>World-wide deaths: 16,371<\/p>\n\n\n<p>World-wide recovered: 100,958<\/p>\n\n\n<p>UK confirmed cases: 6,726<\/p>\n\n\n<p>UK deaths: 335<\/p>\n\n\n<p>UK recovered: 135<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watchet, Somerset, UK, 23:01 This evening, Boris Johnson announced strict restrictions on the movement of people in this country. We are in lockdown from midnight tonight for at least three weeks. I am and will be at home with my wife, kids and dog. I thought it would be a good idea to keep some<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/?p=284\">+ Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,9,10],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blog","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxdaldamuller.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}