Day 14 LockDown

9 April 2020

1845 cases
Recovered: 45
Deceased: 18

Before Covid-19, I would read dystopian (post-apocalyptic) novels all the time. From Stephen King’s The Dome (maybe not quite) to Hunger Games, to Wool to I am Legend. I even enjoyed watching this genre as movies. I’d have a giggle about the zombie horde ambling down a suburbian street, houses all abandoned, yet the lawns would be manicured as if the garden services were there the previous day. We’d joke about the fact that The White House even has a Zombie battle plan.

Yet, when I leave the house on the odd occassion that I really have to, there is nothing funny about the outside to me. The books & the movies have lost their appeal, much of it is way too close to home. I get really irritated about vagrants who are lounging around on the sidewalks – who on earth do they think is going to pick them up for a “piece job”? The sheer volume of vehicles still on the roads in our town is astounding to me. Do these people not know that we are in the middle of a crisis?

Today is the 14th official day of lockdown (probably around the 20th for us). I am really making an effort to get dressed in the mornings, to have a shower, and to “go to work” and work my hours I normally do. It is a temptation to extend my “lunch” and finish watching something with the twins, or play a bit longer with them. But I realise that I am on a slippery slope, and if I don’t stick to my routine, things might just unravel.