Louise O'Neill: 'Imagine if we'd been put into lockdown in the 90s'

At the beginning of all of this — you know, society burning to the ground — I reminded myself how fortunate we were that this pandemic had happened in 2020.

Imagine if we had been put in lockdown in the nineties, with two television channels and the one house phone. Can you imagine enduring this without technology? Two months and approximately seven thousand conference calls later, I am less enamoured with our digital age. I feel dazed as I scroll through Netflix, unable to watch anything more taxing than a 22-minute sitcom.