April 1, 2022
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In Solodamu, a village on the craggy northern coastline of Fiji’s densely forested, sparsely populated Kadavu Island, Suliasi Lau looks back at the COVID-19 lockdown of early 2020 with a note of nostalgia. “It was a beautiful time,” he says. “We couldn’t go to the shops because of the pandemic, but we could go fishing for free. We had a huge supply of greens like taro leaves, bele, and lettuces, and there were plenty of root crops—taro, yams, and cassava.”
