My last post is already a few days old. I formulate my contributions more or less in my head and then just sit down and type them down. Two contributions were already finished, one about the ingredients for the optimal place to be easy now and the other one about how we treat nature.
On the day I wanted to write them, we came out of the desert and for the first time after three days we had internet again and thus access to the news. In those three days Corona was declared a pandemic, Donald Trump declared a state of emergency and in the home country the measures I had been longing for for a long time, such as school closures etc., were finally implemented. When I saw all this news at the same time, the tears started to flow. A huge thirst for knowledge followed. I had a lot of catching up to do.
Life is crazy. Everything is so unreal, like in a dream or a movie. There are everyday things that are the same as always and there is a part that changes everything. This parallelism is difficult for me to grasp.
I believe that there will be increasing restrictions and that the situation will calm down from late summer at the earliest. Until then, the measures taken will keep changing. Forward planning is therefore no longer possible. There will be major health, social and economic problems and consequences in all countries of the world. I sincerely hope that the unrest and attacks that some people in the USA, for example, want to protect themselves against by buying weapons will not occur.
The Coronavirus LiveTicker ticking day and night
My worries, fears and anxieties are best dealt with by dealing with things. I need a degree of control to be able to look ahead for myself and plan the next steps. So for six days now I have been sitting in every free minute, trying to penetrate something that cannot be penetrated, to control something that is beyond my control. My thoughts run in all directions, I can hardly keep up with them… Like a sponge, I absorb all the information from the most diverse media and try to grasp and understand it all and draw the right conclusions from it.A new reality…
For almost ten days we have been living in quarantine, avoiding contact as much as possible, cooking exclusively by ourselves, only going on bike tours or walks. The only outside contact is shopping in the supermarket. But what is the best plan for the next months? Do we leave, stay here and find a place where we can sit out Corona? For days we’ve been weighing all the pros and cons. No one can see the future. But the development of the last days shows that what I would have wished for weeks ago is not enough anymore. My fantasies of the last few weeks about what will happen are daily overshadowed by reality. In Italy and Spain, doctors have to decide who to treat and who not to treat for lack of medical equipment. Manfred already read two weeks ago in his accessible information sources that this is how it will happen. But it still sounded so far away. That is pure horror. As if all the doctors and people in nursing professions are not demanded enough. I am so grateful to them.Life is crazy. Everything is so unreal, like in a dream or a movie. There are everyday things that are the same as always and there is a part that changes everything. This parallelism is difficult for me to grasp.
How about now?
I would describe myself as an optimistic realist. So what do I think the next few weeks will bring when I look through these, my glasses?I believe that there will be increasing restrictions and that the situation will calm down from late summer at the earliest. Until then, the measures taken will keep changing. Forward planning is therefore no longer possible. There will be major health, social and economic problems and consequences in all countries of the world. I sincerely hope that the unrest and attacks that some people in the USA, for example, want to protect themselves against by buying weapons will not occur.
Hi Sabine, hi Manfred,
You made the right decision to go home. I feel a little disappointed that we will not see you inVancouver this year. But things are too crazy now and no one knows how much longer and how much worse will this crisis be. I wish you a safe trip home and look forward to seeing you two some day. Stay well! Fondly.
Dear Winnie,
thank you for your lines. Yeah, it’s a real pity we won’t be visiting you. We hope that this horror will soon be over. The current situation in Canada is not reported very much in the German media. Are you still going to work or can you do home office?
Anyway, we hope that you are doing well and would be happy to see you again one day.
Stay healthy and take good care of yourself.
All the best
sama
In Canada, a total of 1,371 cases have been reported and 21 have died. The confined cases are mostly in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. I have been working from home and diligently practicing social distancing. It’s very sad to see all these businesses and workers struggling to survive and maintain their sanity. These days, I do a lot of cooking and baking, reading, Chinese calligraphy, walking and biking. There’s not a lot of work due to the travel ban. I don’t see any immediate improvement on the horizon. Anyway, you two hang in there and get home safe