Corona times: Ten things we have learned from celebrities in 2020

In time, no one will remember what happened in the first two months of the year.

Today is Friday the 31st. This year began on Friday, the 13th of March, the day after the first case of coronavirus was confirmed on our shores. In time, no one will remember what happened in the first two months of the year. Those first 10 hopeful weeks of 2020 will be as surreal as a pleasant dream before dawn, before one comes fully awake to a long 18-hour day, full of hard labour. Which makes this Friday the real half-way point of 2020.

Let’s examine 10 things and celebrities that have changed irreversibly in these last five months of Covid-19, beyond bars not being allowed to serve alcohol (that’s like petrol stations not selling fuel), social distancing (in a country where once blood had to be shed to stop matatus carrying passengers nose-to-bum-to bumper), quick funerals (where Luhyas squeezed final farewells for a week full of festivities), masks (which you only saw when watching Asia Business News on BBC, featuring Honk Kong), hand-washing and sanitising (in a country where men would pee then come join a throng for goat-eating with unwashed paws) and where if Raila and Uhuru had delayed their ‘merger’ by exactly two years, we would now be talking of the ‘Fist Bump’ (that did in Ruto) as opposed to ‘The Handshake.’