It’s been how long? The Royals’ take on a year of Coronavirus

The Royals
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…

  1. Spent 23 hours on the phone to Telstra being a crazy Karen.
  2. Gone through 200 rolls of toilet paper (don’t worry, I live with 5 others.
  3. Played over 100 games of Catan before landing on the winning strategy (no wheat = defeat).
  4. Spent 252 of the 356 days talking to my creative partner (on ya, Iz).
  5. Mapped out many imaginary holidays, including 1 to space.
  6. Formed an unhealthy obsession with McFlurries (Oreo + M&m + caramel sauce = the shiz).
  7. Had many epiphanies, like that 1.5 metres is the equivalent to the length of my body, minus my head.

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