What It Looks Like When the World Stands Still
With OPEC++ behind us, let's take a moment to marvel at just how completely our lives have come to a screeching halt.
The City of London has gone silent.
Photographer: Andrew Redington/Getty Images
Easter weekend? What Easter weekend? I spent the entire time following the twists and turns of the extraordinary attempt by oil producers to cobble together the biggest output cut in history, only to see the price fall when commodity markets opened on Monday. Lockdown? I was glued to my computer all weekend and wouldn’t have noticed if all restrictions had been removed. Of course, they weren’t, and that got me thinking about just how our lives have come to a screeching halt.
Enjoy the stillness. I live under a flight path into one of London’s major airports, so the grounding of planes does have its upside. As do the quieter roads when I take my bike out for my morning “commute” — halfway to the office and back each morning.