Lock Down

Friday March 27 2020

Hello Aaliyah G

How are you doing? I hope you’re doing much better than we’re doing here in New zealand. Lately it’s been crazy, life was quite normal and suddenly in a few days it turned 180 degrees. We all heard the news about Coronavirus that originated in China back in December last year. Due to their weird eating habits which includes (bats/ snakes/ dogs/ bugs) Chinese people basically eat all animals and meat you can say anything that moves. 

Slowly the virus started to spread out of China all over the world, basically it has flu-like symptoms (dry cough / sneezing and sore throat) but it’s far more deadly than the common cold. It spread through touching (hand shake) or touching an object that is infected. 

Due to the fast spread almost all the countries decided to go for a lockdown. That means no school, no playground, no going to the library, basically you have to stay home to avoid catching the virus.If you have to go out you need to be 2 meters away from any person to be safe from catching the virus. 

Staying home is not too much fun when you can’t go to the playground or visit your grandma. It feels like you're a prisoner in your own home. You can’t visit family or friends and no one can visit you. 

Now when you look back at your everyday life it makes you appreciate the simple things we took for granted. Like having fun time in the playground or spending the weekend at grandma’s house. It makes me appreciate going to school everyday and seeing my friends, having fun together in the lunch break or even practicing for class assembly. All these simple things that we all took for granted are now forbidden for everyone’s safety. 

Otherwise things might get out of hand If the virus spreads in our community faster than anyone can handle. You are aware all the time that you shouldn’t touch anything outside your home. Once you get home you have to wash your hands and face with warm soapy water for 20 sec then dry it properly. The only place you can go to is either your backyard or front yard to enjoy a little sunshine. Even the supermarket visits that we used to complain about is now not permitted for us kids. Having a takeaway meal in the park is now history even going to the mall is not happening for the next 4 weeks. 

You can say suddenly life is being put on hold like when you pause a movie so you can go grab your bottle of water. For now they say it’s FOUR WEEKS it might be longer but we all hope it’ll be less. Sometimes you feel angry, scared or worried not knowing what will happen next but then you tell yourself We’re going to get through this.

From: Helena