ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author looks at the unprecedented situation in which we found ourselves during a global pandemic from both a personal and global/environmental perspective. She touches on the trauma of living in the period ‘as if’ it was a war. The daily grief at hearing of such enormous losses was traumatising. The author reviews some of the practical ramifications which have flowed from the shifts which have been thrust on to practitioners as well as ethical concerns. Living through the Coronavirus pandemic has been like living through a war. Many of us have felt traumatised by the daily tally of deaths, by the ‘rationing’ at the beginning of the period when supermarkets were overwhelmed by people stockpiling toilet paper and such like as a way of coping with the shock we were forced to rapidly absorb.
