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COVID-19 Is a War, Not a Vacation
There is a lot of messaging that now is the perfect time to try a new hobby or catch up on those home improvement tasks you have on your to-do list and that somehow it is possible to “make good use” of our time during COVID lockdowns. That is not at all the case. We are not on vacation. From a psychological perspective, it’s more like the London Blitz. We are all under a tremendous amount of threat from a source we can’t control and can’t predict. That threat might be concern about our own health, the health of friends or loved ones, financial implications of lockdowns, or just the stress of living in lockdown with partners and kids constantly underfoot.
