This day-by-day factual and complete account of events throughout the coronavirus pandemic, written as it happened, gives incredible insight into life during this tragic and historic pandemic in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It includes facts and figures, government initiatives, news events, moving individual accounts, and horrific consequences, as they happened each day. There is also a daily, personal slant on what life was like for the author and his family during what threatened to be an apocalyptic event. Not including the preamble, the diary covers 491 days, beginning in earnest on March 16, 2020 until Freedom Day, July 19, 2021.

It reveals all humanity in its idiocy, compassion, and brilliance; the key elements, significant dates, statistics, human stories, tragedies, government strategies, the twists and turns, the humour and the obtuse. The coronavirus will define this generation and identify these times, like other rare global historical events such as the bubonic plague and the World Wars. This book is something to show your children and grandchildren when they ask you what it was like during the Covid years. It can also be used as a point of reference for historians, commentators, and educators. It is also merely for posterity and public interest.

Were you alive? Do you recall it? Do you remember our Prime Minister almost died with Covid-19? Remember murderers in jail being vaccinated weeks before the prison officers? The Queen saying ‘we’ll meet again’ during lockdown? Surely you recollect the EU conducting ‘an act of hostility’ towards the UK to get their hands on our vaccines? The 30 police officers fined for having a haircut, or the first man in the world to be vaccinated being called William Shakespeare from Stratford-Upon-Avon! The whole world was plunged into chaos, with death, suffering and economic disaster. How did we cope? How did all of this happen?