From 7 April to 1 June 2020, Singapore was in its “Circuit Breaker”: the city-state’s version of COVID-19 lockdown. For 56 days, non-essential retailers were forced to close; working from home became mandatory; gathering outside or at home was banned. Of course, long before then, international borders had been shut tight. Although I started lockdown life with optimism and flights of fancy to where I’d travel “when all this is over”, fear and negativity soon took over. As a travel ...
