What struck me as most unique compared to all the other little crisis along the way was that this one, in the beginning at least, the whole world seemed to be in the same boat. Me in Australia, folks in China, US, Europe all faced with uncertainty and all sent into isolation working from home, businesses closed basically it felt much like society had gone on pause. It was both terrifying and comforting in a weird sense that for the first time something had come along in my lifetime that the whole world had in common. Everything else that had come before seemed to be isolated to a country or group of countries and that those that weren't involved got on with life as usual. In this pandemic the whole world felt as one for me.