It’s been how long? The Royals’ take on a year of Coronavirus
4 min readApr 8, 2021
A year ago we set The Royals a task to creatively respond to coronavirus. Exactly 12 months on, we’ve set a new Royals challenge — respond to the statement “coronavirus is now like … ‘. Here’s what we came up with.
Ken Sum
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Coronavirus is now like…
Nervous as … it ain’t over yet.
- James from Finance
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In one COVID-19 year I’ve…
- Spent 23 hours on the phone to Telstra being a crazy Karen.
- Gone through 200 rolls of toilet paper (don’t worry, I live with 5 others.
- Played over 100 games of Catan before landing on the winning strategy (no wheat = defeat).
- Spent 252 of the 356 days talking to my creative partner (on ya, Iz).
- Mapped out many imaginary holidays, including 1 to space.
- Formed an unhealthy obsession with McFlurries (Oreo + M&m + caramel sauce = the shiz).
- Had many epiphanies, like that 1.5 metres is the equivalent to the length of my body, minus my head.