I remember I was at my uni library and I learned from a tweet of the health ministry that schools and unis are shutdown for the foreseeable future. I immediately went home early.
I remember telling my siblings “Meh this will probably last a week or so”. lol in hindsight.
COVID started for me long before March 2020. Last family event pre-COVID was New Year’s Eve or Day (I can’t recall) at the very end of 2019 before 2020. So family events were over in January 2020 when it first broke the news, long before the lockdowns in March.
In person school was kinda screwed since late 2019, so the last actual day I had a chance to enjoy was the first week of June 2019. Pretty much the last time I spoke to anyone else in person aside from family.
I had already knew the rest of the academic year in early 2020 was a goner. By March 2021 I was desperate for schools to reopen without restrictions so I would get a chance to “catch up with peers” and I opted to select the in person choice just so it was an option if I wanted to use it. But at the end it never got a chance to happen. School ended for good long before the COVID restrictions ended in mid-2022.
It has already wrecked permanent damage and set me back about 5-15 years if I want to catch up, and now I desperately need to catch up and plan a departure from my country to flee elsewhere in due time before it goes to hell. I’m screwed.