COVID-19 restrictions
As I read the story of
Baldred the hermit, I realised that COVID-19 has turned some of us into hermits
… not quite as extreme as Baldred but still with limited movement and limited
social interaction. We are in week 11 of
Lockdown currently although restrictions have eased somewhat. Those of us who can work at home and are not
high risk are encouraged to go out for exercise as many times as we want rather
than the original once a day. We are now
allowed to meet up to 6 people from different households outside and we must
wear masks on public transport.
Coronavirus blew up in
the UK when Paul was in Brunei, Countries were closing their borders and I had
a few days of not knowing whether Paul would get home as he had been turned
away when he made his first attempt to leave Brunei, at the airport. I eventually wrote to the Brunei government
and his papers were signed the next day.
He has been home since which is great, and I feel for the people who are
alone. Ben is also here and is a
keyworker at Tesco. He is starting to go
out and meet with his friends as the restrictions are lifting.
In these 11 weeks we
have seen Nina once and Pippi once, she has collected and dropped off bits and
pieces as well, but we have only seen her briefly on these occasions. Of course, I cannot hug her which is odd. I started off well at the beginning of the
lockdown keeping in touch with people, but it gets harder, as life stays the
same. I speak to my dad every day, but
the calls are generally short.
The lockdown has affected
several events that I/we had booked. My brother
was getting married, but his wedding got cancelled. We were due to go to Colchester for this and would
have seen the family. For Easter we were
due to go to Ireland and my dad was coming with us. That was cancelled. I was due to go to Berlin with Pippi – mainly
to go to the zoo, that was cancelled. Paul
was due to give a training course in Brisbane and I was helping, that is
postponed. We are due to go to Wales on
holiday in July – it remains to be seen if that will get cancelled. I will write separately over the experience I
have had with the various companies as events have been cancelled.
The scary thing is, I am
starting to get used to not speaking to many people and not going out. I have only been to the post office once in
the last 11 weeks, I have not been to any shops as I have various local companies
delivering and with Ben working at Tesco, he can bring home anything I have
forgotten.
It will be interesting
to see what the World will be like once the lockdown is lifted completely and
when life gets back to normal – if it ever does. I have a feeling that the new normal will be
quite a different place.
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