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Reflections on 2020 - Hackney Citizen


Reflections on 2020
By Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley | Wednesday 16 December 2020 at 14:20
Sisters Ella and Leona Lewis start a minute’s silence at the We Grieve ‘memori-wall’ installed on Clapton Common over the summer. Photograph: Fran Hales
At the beginning of 2020, as we emerged from winter, we slowly began to notice the news coverage of the eternally fruitless Brexit negotiations had given way to something else entirely.
Increasingly perplexed and anxious scientists and medics lined up to speak of an invisible assailant which was edging ever closer. This assailant, they said, was unconcerned with the niceties of queuing up at passport control or politely presenting itself at the Customs Office before leaving the airport. Its only intention was to find its way to our vital organs and to slowly destroy us from the inside until even a singular breath became an impossibility. ....

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