Clodagh Finn: Life after lockdown — the worst thing we can do is return to ‘normal’

As Covid-19 restrictions are gradually lifted, we now have a choice between falling back into our old habits or reinventing our world

Masked-up policemen in Seattle in 1918 during the 'Spanish flu' influenza epidemic which claimed millions of lives worldwide. Picture: Time Life Pictures/National Archives/Getty Images

Before I could say “hello haircut”, I missed the turn-off and found myself funnelled into the fast lane, then swept into the middle of motorway traffic which was hurtling at speed away from the hairdresser and my first appointment in five months.

Hello new post-lockdown freedoms, indeed. They weren’t even a day old and I was already lost, late, and completely thrown.