Dear Blog #1

Dear Blog

In these current situations, life is getting quite scary. At the time that I am writing this, we have spent nearly 3 weeks in lockdown. In the 17 years of my life, I have never experienced anything like this before. On the news, all you hear is about the amount of people tragically losing their lives due to Coronavirus or how people are feeling more alone than ever. The elderly, who may only go out once a week to a gathering so they can socialise with others, are being forced to stay inside for safety and with that, losing contact with the outside world. Young children are asking parents 'Do my friends not like me?'. What do we tell them? How do we tell them? Around the world, parents are struggling to teach their kids the things they would be learning at school or finding them something to them occupied. Health workers are fighting battles to care for people with the virus and being cautious of their own health which is causing them to be separated from family. Too many people are taking the lockdown too loosely and still going to see family and friends and having parties. The lockdown will be released sooner if we stay at home and keep the distance. Too many people aren't trusting health officials and those trying to keep the country safe. I'd like to say, where is your degree in medicine? Or in politics? If you think you know best, then go ahead. I for one think that those people who are risking their lives to keep the world going are doing a great job. Leave them be. They don't need rude and hateful comments about them dividing their attention from the thing that really matters: protecting their citizens, the people who look up to them to save the day. To the mayor who said that Boris deserved to have Coronavirus, I am disgusted that you would wish ill health to someone. It's people like you who ruin and destroy people's lives. He is someone's family and a future father with a fiancee who is probably worrying that the man she loves could be on his death bed. Who are you to wish that someone would die?

For a while now I have been thinking of something. While the situation that we are in is horrible and feels like the start of an apocalyptic movie, we should appreciate that we have technology that allows us to contact to our loved ones that we may not be able to see for a while. I can't help but feel sorry for people who lived back in the 19th century where they had a major outbreak and they wouldn't be able to contact people as easily or where they wouldn't be able to identify diseases as quickly. Yeah, we are all suffering indoors, there have been people who have had no choice but to go out and keep living their lives because they didn't technology or transportation that we have in the modern day. Even now, I am writing on my laptop in my garden to keep myself occupied; like so many people all around the world. However, we need to be grateful that we connect with each other, that we can still send messages to loved ones and get an instant response. We need to stop worrying about all the negative things that have come from this virus and think about the positives that we can look forward to when all of this is over. A positive that I have experienced since this outbreak is being in my garden. I haven't worked outdoors in so long as we never have time to clean all the rubbish, but now I can happily sit outside and get some air. We need to appreciate the little things in life that we still have during this time. For most of us, we still have people we can talk to, who we can laugh with. Life hasn't stopped during the virus and we should still look for something to inspire us; to make us smile even if it is for a mere second.

As a planet, we can get through this. Positively can be spread just like negativity, it just needs more people to help empower it. That's all from me, remember stay safe and stay at home.

Daniella x