You see a lot when you walk through a locked-down city. Here's what I saw.
London has become a huge open-air health club. I've never seen so many people out running. Parents running with children, children running with dogs, biking, yoga. And I've never seen so many old people (like me) out walking.
There's far less traffic but the traffic that's still around is racing through London at 4 times the speed limit. That means YOU construction trucks and delivery vans and all the wankers in German cars who used to work in offices and who are now racing at home. If we are trying to protect vulnerable people, lets not run them over.
They've closed the parks in my borough because we didn't behave ourselves the first weekend of the lockdown so now everyone is on the Thames Path. Most bikers on the Thames Path are wankers. Joggers aren't much better. And the exclusive private members club with extensive grounds is open. Close the public parks but not the private clubs. Not a good look, really.
Social order is starting to fray in peculiar ways. Today I saw a guy stop his car, open his door and dump his rubbish in the road. I never saw anything like that Before Corona (BC)
But it's still a lovely city. What you hear now are birds and ambulances.
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