Tales from the apocalypse
Edinburgh on lockdown I thought the apocalypse was going to be a little more thrilling than this if I'm honest. I pictured the world in flames, with aliens chasing us and stomping on us as if we were ants. Turns out, for me, it just means feeling the usual dose of existential dread. There's still a bittersweet sense of normality in all this anxiety. We're gonna be fine, they tell us and we want to believe them. We're not seeing the end of the global pandemic yet and in just under two weeks it's already changed our lives and taught us a few lessons. Here's a list of ideas that are being learnt or reinforced since COVID-19 attacked the earth. 1. People on "low-level" jobs keep the world go around . And, of course, in theory we always knew this. We need the nurses, the carers, the shop assistants, the delivery people, the farm workers, I could continue. We know in reality they are just the lowest-paid jobs, not the lowest-needed jobs. S...