She says early in the copy text that she was in Antarctica in 2005. To me the article read like she was recounting her experiences and her return to civilisatio

She says early in the copy text that she was in Antarctica in 2005. To me the article read like she was recounting her experiences and her return to civilisation as a mechanism to explore how others will come out of Covid lockdown, therefore the references to coronavirus did not seem out of place.