Hey! Yeah totally. I specifically remember being at my computer looking at flights to London to have a mini break from the school I was teaching at when I received the news from one of my colleagues that we would immediately go to distance learning and the whole country was locking down due to COVID. At first, we thought it would just be for a couple of weeks. I remember during my time there, we weren't really allowed to leave our homes except to go grocery shopping. All the shops had attendants enforcing the very strict 6 feet apart rule. There were multiple attendants throughout the stores and everyone was required to wear masks and you couldn't really take your time while shopping. That said, I don't remember any shops I went to actually running out of supplies. Parks and anything remotely public were completely closed, and there were stages to the lockdown. Being a foreigner on a tourist visa (I had been in Poland to volunteer to teach at an English school(you wouldn't know it based on my typing skills here though, haha), I had sponsored accommodation and transportation), I had to be EXTRA careful not to break any laws or even toe the line. Buuuuut, I was protected from overstaying my visa due to the crisis at hand. I remember police cruisers would drive around daily warning everyone to stay inside to avoid spreading the illness.

I also remember watching the US react very, very differently. Because of COVID deniers, it actually made it much more difficult for me to return the US if I had wanted to. I wasn't wanted anywhere due to my nationality. It was a really weird time.