Someone asked me how we are surviving lockdown, now we are maybe on the 7th week. Probably very similar to everyone else.
Many different emotions. – very grateful for those who risk their lives to care and keep the World going, grateful for every day that moves us towards the end of this crises but also feel – sad, scared and angry – how and who put us in this place.? Like John McEnroe – “You cannot be serious” – in our age of technology – how is this possible we missed this, especially after Ebola in Africa and Sars?. Also confused and sometimes hopeless – feel losing hope is the worst and fight against this.
But reallise there are many people in parts of the World very at risk where true figures are not being revealed and even parts of our own country. where many people have lost their jobs and getting into debt and wondering how to put food on the table. We must not forget any of these people and part of the solution must make them a big part of it,
Scared when we shop and put our shopping away and think how to make these journeys safer and wash my hands a lot and wonder what happens when we cant get any more wipes and dettol sprays. Frustrated why the supermarket shelves are still so empty of certain essentials – like eggs, wipes.
Frustrated there is no clear messages about things like masks and that it took those in control so long to remember those who need caring for – not just in care homes. There is still a huge lag in remembering those who are being cared for at home and in mental health homes and those who care for them but its getting a little better
A lot of structure missing in our lives and reallise how we cope also depends on how other people we are sharing the lockdown with are coping.
But the positives – walk more often and kind of clean more often, the air is quieter and probably cleaner and people are helping each other more
Spend more time keeping in touch with people who are important part of our lives and try and make and fix things myself but let other things go some which are important to me, feel sad about
Reallise the many opportunities to interact better & be more self reliant. Not entirely sure if loss of hope currently undermines these opportunities. Room for improvement.
There is much information out there to keep communities going – impressive how people are adapting. The World around us has become more peaceful although our garden is little overgrown but nature and the slugs and rabbits are happy. maybe the hedgehogs will come back
Im told someone in Sweden wrote – what has happened to the Brits – now, they are all out there exercising!
But like grief, you go through stages but so long as the trend is positive and we have hope – in the way of improving stats and hope of a vaccine and treatments. Think going forwards we also need clear scientifically based instruction.how to cope when lockdown ends and some reassurance that what caused this will be identified and we will focus & prioritise more in future on being better prepared for events like this rather than throwing all Government focus on things which are not so important.
Isn’t that a Boy Scouts motto
And we need to watch how other countries managed this and learn from them as they learn from us and look for opportunities to work with other countries in Europe and across the World as a team.
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