Prior to this wretched virus lockdown, in the hazy past of just two weeks ago, lots of people complained about suffering from FOMO —the intense envy of other people's glittering social lives, aka the Fear Of Missing Out.
Not me though
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Sure, I might come across as an extrovert on television, but I am not a particularly gregarious person. After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the occasional grunted demand for food from a passing teenager.
Raucous socialising isn't my thing, so I've never suffered from FOMO
>And now no one else has to. Lockdown means those fancy holidays and best-fun-ever events are not just off the schedule — they are illegal. Unless you want the police called, no one's showing them off on Facebook.
Susanna Reid (pictured) claims lockdown has introduced a new social affliction, Fear Of Not Doing Anything (FONDA)
