CORONA FATIGUE

IT’S 11pm. She crawls into bed and unlocks her phone. Checks Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and Face-book. Repeats.

When she next checks the time, it’s two hours later. She started off scrolling and scrolling and then got drawn down the rabbit hole of Covid-19 conspiracy theory videos and articles.

This has happened almost every night since the national lockdown started on 27 March, Cape Town-based schoolteacher Kelly-Ann Petersen* admits.

Before she knows it, it’s 2am and she realises that yet again she’s going to be getting too little sleep.

“The funny thing is that every morning when I wake up, exhausted and bleary-eyed, I tell myself I’m not going to fall into the same trap again that night,” Kelly says. “But then every night