Well it has been a while since I was here, life has been so busy and now all of a sudden I find life has pretty much stopped, everywhere.
Everyone is home schooling.. how ironic is that!..
Well a few weeks ago Coronavirus hit us all like a tonne of bricks and everyone was ordered to go on lockdown in our homes.
Schools and business all closed down, just like that. wow. The mind boggles.
The only services that are running are the key services that a civilised society needs to keep running. Health services and food are the staple, a walk to open groud that ensures you are away at least by 6ft from anyone else to excercise and no visiting family members.
Life has turned upside down for everyone and at this point the estimated death count stands at 13,729.
My mind is blown.
The first week was panic, everyone panic buying rediculous things like toilet roll, now it seems everyone is singing and clapping.
To be fair after 4 weeks of lockdown and a rising death toll I don't think anyone knows what to do with themselves, with no end in sight, most people are just doing what they can to stay sane.
Right across the world people are dying, but it has been an interesting process watching world leaders coming together to fight this invisible enemy.
Amongst conspiracy thories and pseudoscience world leaders have stood fast, sights like USA on standby to help Russia with ventilators are miracle visions, the world is going to be a very different place when this virus goes away or we find a way to live with it safely without fatalities.
12-18 months are numbers I keep hearing before we can even think about having any semblence of our once thought of normality back into our lives and those figures are amongst some politicians talking about schools going back to normal within a few weeks.
I doubt very much that many will want to test the virus killing power on their own families and kids and will opt for staying at home with their new found home schooling methods until a vaccine is found.
I was quite poorly a few weeks ago and I had to take 2 weeks off Uni, I had flu symptoms, shivering, fever, aching bones, cough, loss of appetite, smell and taste, headaches like sinus issues, chest infection that antibiotics did not clear very well, all symptoms of Coronavirus, I am inclined to think that I had the virus but who knows without a test to confirm that.
The symptoms lasted for weeks before I went full on poorly and not able to get out of bed, I mentioned to my tutor that I thought there was something in the Uni going round, it was so persistent, one minute you thought you where well the next feeling ill again, I pretty much collapsed and missed an important competition through Uni that was the next day, letting everyone down.
A few tutors were off sick with it over the weeks and also some classmates came down with similar, so I am quite certain that it was Coronavirus, so maybe now there is some sort of resistance to the virus but that is not a proven fact as of yet that it even works like that.
I think most people have got over the fear of catching the virus now or even having the virus, the way the Goverment handled it without invoking mass hysteria although not eliminating the panick aspect, the way they did it was quite ingenous, they really did ease everyone into lockdown. Instead of immediate lockdown they warned there would be a lockdown over a period of a few weeks.
The effects of the lockdown have been that the virus is now contained, it has gone from community spread to institution containment, the hospitals and care settings seem to be the places it has hit the hardest. The weakes in society are being shielded the best they can be, with leakage from the carers.
Our people on the frontline are truly heroes, selfless people doing what they can to help the weakest in sciety, it has been a truly beautiul, heartfelt warm sight to see, nurses, doctors, hospital porters, cleaners, carers, caterers, bus drivers, childcare staff, community volunteers, factory workers, sacrificing themselves for the rest of us.
This virus is relentless, I look back on what I have written so far about what is occuring and it could be a novel, a zombie apocalypse film but it is real life. Our lives have changed into a real life movie set..
The twins and I are forbidden from seeing my Grandson and son, that is heartbreaking, I miss them both more as the days go by, but we have facetime, it takes the edge of the sting...
