Travel derangements

No one took Covid-19 more seriously than I did. In the space of one breathless week in March 2020, I cajoled my 80-year-old father-in-law to move in with us, leaving his wife to run their family’s accommodation business alone. I wrote out dozens of relief lessons, informing the WA Department of Education that henceforth I’d be either be working from home or on carer’s leave, their decision. I forbade my 12 and 14-year-old children from leaving our one-acre property for the foreseeable future, even for school. I bought a chest freezer and proceeded to fill it and our pantry shelves with thousands of dollars’ worth of food. On March 21, I padlocked the gate and we went into self-imposed lockdown.