How our leisure activities came to a sudden halt

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The director of the NGVMelbourne , Tony Ellwood, remembers being briefed about how bad the pandemic could get on March 15. 'My first thought was that I can see people walking through the gallery. I need to shut it down fast.' | gmaddox

– watched Facebook Live press conferences by politicians and health authorities and doomscrolled through COVID news.

"To look at the joy on the faces of artists when they start performing again ... is fantastic," he says. "And to see the huge smiles on the faces of members of the audience, it's really very special." The nation's eating and dining habits changed during the crisis, with home baking and cooking new dishes suddenly popular and a spike in ordering take-away. Traffic was light but scores of delivery bikes were scooting around the suburbs in the early evening, sometimes withWith restaurants only viable serving takeaways because of JobKeeper, national food and drink writer Callan Boys says suburban cafes began to thrive from WFH.

While panic buying and physical tangles in supermarkets created headlines, many retailers had to shift their business to virtually 100 per cent online almost overnight. Even with the airline's chief executive Alan Joyce flagging earlier this month that domestic air travel was recovering faster than expected with the reopening of state borders – its scheduled capacity was back to almost 70 per cent of pre-pandemic levels – international travel was expected to be off the agenda until past June.

Source: Entertainment Trends (entertainmenttrends.net)

 

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