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Edward Blom before subcompetition 1 at the Melodifestivalen 2018.
Anxiety about death, children’s play, and good wines.
Edward Blom, 50, now talks about his nine months of isolation thus far.
“You have to be happy it’s not a war,” Blom writes in Expressen Kultur.
On March 13, foodie and cultural historian Edward Blom began his isolation. With a high BMI, she belongs to a risk group and was asked by her friend and professor of clinical bacteriology Agnes Wold to leave Stockholm.
“At first, we told the kids that ‘The Sickness’ would probably go over to summer vacation. Then it became ‘in autumn’, ‘after Christmas’, ‘we don’t know’ … If I had realized from the beginning that I would be isolated from the outside world for a whole year, I would have collapsed, “writes Edward Blom in an essay in Expressen. culture.
He says his nine months of isolation is the strangest thing he’s ever done. They have met up with friends, but in the open air, at a distance of 4.5 meters, which was considered safe according to a German study. The party’s prize was also forced to celebrate its 50th anniversary in isolation.
“Liemann by my side”
In his text, Edward Blom speaks of his great respect for the coronavirus, which he has been closely monitoring since the first outbreak in China. Blom says that since he was a child he had been afraid that the plague would return and had a plan to flee to Norway, as if there were going to be a war. Now the family remained in Huddinge, where Blom lived in constant fear of infection.
“The whole time, the liar has been standing next to me and smiling at me, when I forgot to wash my hands after carrying mail or getting too close to a resident. Is the death virus already in my body now? Will it explode inside 14 days, and will I be dead after a couple of weeks of existence like torture? “
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Edward Blom with Ulf Elfving during the opening of Östermalmshallen in Stockholm in March.
Drink expensive wines
Instead, he began drinking better wines. Blom says he started to run out of expensive bottles he saved for the right time. Face to face with death, it was time to make sure they weren’t bought in vain, he reasoned.
“It’s shameful to admit it. I was never really ashamed to enjoy food and drink, but before death I had thought that everything mundane would vanish, that only the guilt for my sins and the hope of God’s forgiveness would remain. So I go here and think I have to drink that Chateau Musar’n before I step onto my deathbed, ”Blom writes.
Play with the kids
With three young children, isolation has meant everything but loneliness and boredom, they do not miss preschool but their friends, says the gourmet.
Out of fear of gasping runners, he first moved his daily exercise walk to the field, then to the gravel field, and finally to the interior. Now Blom has gotten used to the world shrinking and is happy with it.
“Of course I want to meet my friends, go to the pub, celebrate my late 50th birthday party. But it’s also going well in six months. I work on my computer; we play pirates and watch another episode of ‘The Dog Patrol.’ Everything it’s okay. You have to be glad it’s not a war, “he writes.
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