My Lockdown Journal 2020 – Friday, Day 1:
It's my wife's birthday! To show my love and appreciation, I wrote her a message and posted it on social media. Oh, I made her a scrumptious breakfast accompanied by a bunch of roses (the rose of Sharon).
Our street is quiet; no cars, no joggers, no-one walking their dogs, no workers on their way to work. Just an eerie silence... The coronavirus has become our 9/11 and our Arab Spring. The coronavirus has changed civilisation; it changed our imaginations. It’s a historic period because mankind will in future (now already) refer to a pre-coronavirus and a post-coronavirus period.
We’ll look at sci-fi movies and acknowledge that the unthinkable can become possible within a matter of days. Science fiction before coronavirus was just that, “fiction”!
The world is concerned with maintaining some sort of normalcy but the truth is that we’ve been swallowed up in the abyss of a pandemic that even medical scientists don’t understand. However, while we’re trying to stay afloat, the pandemic has brought civilisation closer together. We’re in a battle for survival. Let’s stay together!
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