Coronavirus blur: why we might not remember the lockdown

Research suggests many of us will quickly forget these months of social distancing

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A woman crosses London Bridge during what would usually be the busy pre-9am rush-hour
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Research into the way humans form memories suggests that the majority of people living through the coronavirus lockdown may quickly forget the experience after the restrictions are lifted.

Or as science and health writer Shayla Love writes in an article for Vice, the “unnerving truth is that we may not remember much, because we never do”.

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