If you ve ever watched Bridgerton or Downton Abbey, I fear I may have to puncture your fantasies. For as I ve discovered the daily reality is rather different.
Ms. Addario is a photojournalist, a MacArthur fellow and the author of the memoir “It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War.”
Jan. 28, 2021
Nearly a year into the pandemic, the situation in Britain is dire. A vicious first wave has given way to an even more deadly second one. On Tuesday, the country passed a milestone of 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus which amounts to one of the worst fatality rates in the world. A national lockdown, in place since Jan. 4, has only recently begun to lower the eye-wateringly high number of cases, fueled in part by the emergence of a new, apparently more contagious variant of the virus. The toll on the National Health Service is close to unbearable: Nearly 40,000 Covid-19 patients are in hospitals, almost double the peak last year.