The monster that ate time

The amount of time people spend doing various activities, such as paid work, child care, sleeping, volunteering and socialising, has changed during the pandemic. –123rf.com

HOW times have changed. Maybe it’s not so much the times that have changed but how we have changed during these times. Two years ago, we would never have imagined how the coronavirus pandemic was going to change the way we spend, perceive and talk about time.

Physicists define time as the progression of events from the past to the present into the future. Living through a pandemic, we can reflect on the past and what we did pre-pandemic, bide our time in the present, and look forward to a future when we no longer fear the coronavirus.