When was the last time that you sat down and thought about the Covid-19 pandemic? You remember: the social distancing, the lockdowns, the “next slide, please” daily briefings, the Perspex screens in restaurants, the body bags, the ghastly overnight death toll on the news, which on just one day in January 2021 totalled 1,490? It probably depends on whether you lost someone to the virus. For many people it feels like a horrible distant memory we try to banish. But Love and Loss: The Pandemic 5 Years On (BBC1) was a heartbreaking reminder that those who did lose someone do not have that luxury.
There has been no moving on, no “putting it behind us” for them because their lives changed irrevocably. Worse, they were.
