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Leeds reflects on 4 years since lockdown
National World - LocalTV
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25/03/2024
We look back at the empty streets of Leeds in March 2020 as Leeds locals reflect on the first COVID-19 lockdown.
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I was working in an NHS hospital in March 2020 and I recall distinctly the preparations
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we were making, trying to understand what this thing was. I'm not a clinician but I
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work with a lot of doctors, nurses and others and we were making what preparations we could,
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looking at what was happening overseas.
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Literally just before lockdown I changed jobs, so I went from working in the office to working
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for NHS. I started working in LGI hospital. So yeah, it was strange, very quiet, there
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was no traffic at all.
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It got a bit boring, you know when you couldn't do anything, it was just wake up, same thing
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every day. We used to take him out because he was born a couple of, about a year or so
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before so most of his childhood he was in lockdown so, and it was just literally in
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an apartment, weren't it?
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It was all an awful time but we were very, very fortunate to live very close to Round
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A Park and we felt that we could socially distance safely here and enjoy the beauty
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of the park. There are many walks around here, you know, through the woodland and up Elmete
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Lane and across and we found a lot of walks that we didn't really know about before.
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The weather was really nice, so we spent a lot of time outside.
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Yeah, it was positive at the beginning, I think there was a lot of family time and time
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to relax but then I went to uni, start of lockdown, well in the September and then that
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was like the negative effect of that. It was isolating a bit.
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We weren't locked down, we were an acute hospital, we were open 24/7 but we were having to think
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radically about how open we were to visitors, how we had to reconfigure the wards, I mean
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it was, you know, I can't imagine a good analogy, it was like preparing for a war I suppose
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but we didn't quite know what. March was still quite early in proceedings.
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