Revisit samknightwrites’s reflections, from 2020, about how his family (and the people of Britain) navigated the first days after the pandemic’s arrival in Europe.
, by Rob Lloyd Jones, published in 2018. “A fat black rat scurried down a gangplank,” is how Chapter 1, “Dark News,” begins. The great pestilence, as it was also known, originated around the Black Sea, infected populations in the Middle East and Asia, and then came ashore in Italy. The first few pages of my daughter’s history book show medieval people going about their medieval lives, with very little social distancing.
In the United Kingdom, almost all the schools remain open. The authorities have hesitated to close them because of the consequences for everything else: health-care workers staying at home, potentially vulnerable grandparents being roped in for emergency child care, poorer children going hungry. “There are significant downsides,” Matt Hancock, the British Health Secretary, told Parliament earlier this week. “That is why we have no plans for a mass closure of schools.
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