This post isn’t supporting breaking COVID protocols, please adhere to the rules!
Okay I don’t usually agree with my boyfriend’s Dad, but for this topic I’m seeing things more from his perspective. The topic is getting back to normal safely or as G puts it “why am I continually being punished for being healthy.” He does have point, even though it’s little backwards he being very valid. Aren’t you fed up with “14 days to flatten the curve” that was nearly a freaking year ago! I know that Sam will have different perspective because she like in third or fourth lockdown! If you look a Saskatchewan’s numbers we soared in November/ December which I was looking forward to a lockdown but atlas there was just restrictions which seem to me are doing diddling squat. We have year that none of us can get back and the majority of us are just fed up with the lack acknowledgement that restrictions aren’t working, so why can’t we go back to normal?!
There’s no denying that 2020 sucked, we all missed opportunities, ceremonies, travelling etc. However I’m starting to feel that restrictions that both our federal and provincial government have come up with it’s to help stop the spread of COVID but to restrict us the people! Even when the new restrictions were set in place our number still rose but when business or people broke the rules they got tiny slap on hand. What’s the point of having fines when you aren’t going to act on them!! It’s really whose benefiting from this? If you look at any small business they are literally hanging by a thread and on the brink of foreclosure in a lot cases. It’s hard to fathom that ‘small business joe’ whose following all the rules is on the brink of extinction where as big box store are basically running like business as usual?! How about the homeless who are ready seen a brink of society, how are they managing during this uncertain times, especially when we lockdown where could they reach out then?! Who was there to care for the teachers when they had to set up classrooms to new protocols who encouraged them that it’s okay about teaching during this difficult period. See this living but not really living is getting to us all.
Let’s talk about mental health which is on the rise by the way. Shocking, not really when you consider we have been socially distant meaning to some socially alienated for a year!! Yes, I said alienation because we have lost that sense of community, physical connecting with one another. We are slowly loosing each other because suicide is becoming the big silent killer and we are going to loose a lot more people to this than COVID. Sure there’s zoom, FaceTime, but for a lot of people that’s not really connecting they need physical interaction. Our elderly are suffering, our youth are suffering, so when is enough, enough.
Am not supporting in breaking the rules however I feel that restrictions have to start lifting more, so we can get back to normal. We all have to get back to living normally because we are all being affected and we are slowly turning on each other. So yes as healthy person I feel that I am being punished-punished for trying to live. Cause honestly isn’t that what we are striving for? Perhaps as the vaccines roll out while help us get back to the life we use to know. However, a lot of us won’t see the vaccines because either we aren’t essential or have health problems, so we are still going to feel that we are living insolation.
Yes, our numbers are going down. Hopefully it won’t take another year before we can visit family, friends, etc. Until then it will feel that G and I are being punished for wanting normalcy, we’ll just have to overcome this hurdle by putting one foot in front of the other. Learn to embrace each day for it will all be worth going a very tough year.
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