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Originally Posted by BookCat
I'll never read books about the pandemic. I want to forget the whole thing. During 2020 and 2021 I suffered terribly from anxiety, so much so that I bought myself a new ereader as a present for surviving with my mind intact.
This wasn't helped by the fact that the first lockdown in March 2020 lead to the death of a beloved cat - Cydric. All the vets were closed so he was unable to get proper treatment. He and my other cat were devoted, so I felt her grief also. And the normal support networks could not be called upon; no hugs etc from friends.
So I went through the pandemic with just my cat Victoria. I never want to be reminded of that time. So I'll probably forever give books about the pandemic a miss.
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That's very sad. Were veterinary services really deemed non-essential in the UK? No vet clinics were closed here. I remember feeling briefly panicked in the spring of 2020 when I thought that perhaps they will be closed (I had 3 cats at the time, two of them with chronic illnesses), but they weren't.
One of my cats died a year later, in March 2021, but Covid had nothing to do with it.