Photo: courtesy of Mark
Day in the Life is a series of diaries from people at the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.
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I started self-isolation on Friday the 15th before the lock-down happened, so I’ve been self-isolating for a week. Then the government started saying, “Don’t go to pubs”. Then McDonald's started closing their restaurants and just doing take away, drive-thru and delivery.That was half-way through my self-isolation so I thought, ‘at least when I go back, it’s going to be mad busy, because everyone’s going to want deliveries if they can’t go into restaurants.’ I thought if anything, we’ll have less time to wait in restaurants because there will be no customers in there, so we’ll get the food faster, get it to the customer, do more jobs and earn more.Then a couple of days after that all the restaurants announced that they were going to close, so straight away, overnight, that was it! As much as they said restaurants could stay open and offer a delivery service, everywhere has just decided to take the 80 percent wages and close. Just offering a takeaway service, they’re not going to make anywhere near the money they need to.
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