Hands up if you remember what you were doing three years ago today? At the risk of sounding like Paul Daniels, the answer is: “Not a lot!”
That’s because the first lockdown was announced on March 23, 2020, and the three key words were STAY AT HOME. Not that they applied to Catherine Calderwood, of course. Scotland’s former chief medical officer swanned off to her holiday home in the East Neuk of Fife not once, but TWICE.
The rest of us were basically ordered to only step outside for 15 minutes of exercise which, on a personal note, I’m happy to say wasn’t compulsory. This very column – originally called Tam Cowan’s Covid Chronicles – was launched three years ago, dear reader, to take a light-hearted look at the global pandemic.
