Rick O’Shea: Reading about the world coming to a halt is way better than the reality
From Day of the Triffids to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, there’s a strange kind of comfort in fictional Armageddons
My social media feeds have recently reminded me of photos I took and things I posted online four years ago in the first few weeks of lockdown after the world came shuddering to a halt.
I had a different view to most other people — I was still going to work in RTÉ every day, driving through checkpoints and abandoned streets, broadcasting from an almost empty building. I stopped one Saturday morning in Donnybrook village and stood in the middle of the road for a while just to take pictures. I described it to friends later as being like 28 Days Later without the zombies.
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