Heather Mallick: The COVID-19 pandemic is the worst movie we’ve ever lived through

If this life we are living now were a novel, it would be called "Drop the Body" or "Land of Ham"; if a memoir, "Bunker Time: The Year of Motley Heavings." If it were a sandwich, the filling would be moths, jam and beef powder, and its leathery bread would be buttered on the outside.