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Paused on St. Helena for a Global Pandemic

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Well now, it's been an interesting couple of months hasn't it? We've been vaguely keeping track of happenings in the rest of the world by listening to the BBC World news on the radio with breakfast each morning. It had been very gloomy there for a while but now things seem to be becoming more optimistic. Apart from the economy of course, that's completely screwed. I think it might be our fault; last time we took a year off to go travelling we had the Global Financial Crisis and swine flu so there seems to be a bit of a pattern there. Sorry. We've had a very different experience of the pandemic here, almost the opposite of what you've all had. There's no covid-19 on the island, no lockdown, bars and restaurants are open and parties have been know to occur. On the other hand we've completely missed out on what seems to be a fascinating online lockdown culture due to the limits of internet here. Jamestown is sqeezed into the valley