Lock down Blues
Their are undoubtedly many stories of sadness, anger and fear associated with being isolated and shut in during the last month. Some have lost love ones and were not even able to attend to them when they died. This must be a heart breaking thing but unless you were going through this yourself you still might wonder if it was all worth it. I’m thankful that i mostly only had to contend with a little anxiety and depression during this time and a little anger i would add at what i felt was a lack of understanding by those in government of how such a radical and swift decision must have and will impact thousands of kiwi’s for some time to come.
we didn’t see the thousands of deaths which are being recorded in other countries. all we had were numbers read out behind a podium. My sacrifices amounted to a tooth which was causing me grief. some sleepless nights, an attack of angina which resulted in a hospital visit and a daughter who had gotten hot water spilled on her leg and also required a visit to accident and emergency. But that was enough and now that we have emerged to a somewhat lesser restricted world via a level 3 state i am quietly hoping that we can as a country keep our heads and not provoke another complete shut down environment.
But i’m not so sure we can. until now the nation has been very compliant with what was asked of them but the fear was greater then and this was used to great advantage by the government to enforce the lock down. Given the number of deaths so far i think we will too easily forget that it could have been so much worse if we hadn’t done what we did. However i don’t think we would do this again or could even afford to as a country. There are businesses who feel unjustly left out when it came to the decision about who could open their stores at level 3 and whilst places like supermarkets allow people to come and go choose what they want to buy in store, most were forced to either order online or stand outside some select stores for other products and this in itself has caused some to wonder at the fairness of it all. But their you go, not an easy job to be a minister and deciding what can and can’t be open so as not to encourage too many people to be out and about at level 3.
Whilst i understand the thinking behind the limitations i am also aware that they got many things wrong especially when it came to the types of things people could buy which were considered necessary. I’m sure you have your own stories and what i have said here only echoes how many people are feeling at this time. it’s a huge thing to put this much faith or trust in a government and we haven’t had to do it to this extent before. I hear rumors that some laws as we speak are being looked at for future occasions like this where our civil liberties might once again be deprived us and i am a little concerned how some of these will look. see below as to how some of this possibly could change our lives and what may be done about it. Until level 2 be safe family.
ps..I have noticed that since my last turn i seem to be having some struggles with stringing things together in sentences. The concepts there in my brain but it’ doesn’t always come out as intended. I hope you can over look my mistakes or point them out to me so i can correct them.
