A New Threat.

Unless you've been living under a rock over the last few weeks, you'll be well aware of the COVID-19 virus that has been taking its toll on the world. Seems like a day doesn't go by where we aren't being told about unfortunate souls who are fighting for their lives, and their families' agonising wait for them to recover. Then you hear about the foolish behaviour of panic buyers, food shortages and people not able to get the basics, but it's also been a lot of communities coming together to help each other. The latter gives us hope and solidarity, we need both to overcome this and protect the vulnerable and elderly.

Fear and panic are the enemy. In the modern world of the 20st century, we have become increasingly reliant on living our lives in a bubble, accessed from a screen. We often don't even know who our neighbours are, let alone how they're doing. I do understand that we're all suddenly having our world shaken and it's terrifying that something like a virus is as vicious and incurable (viruses tend to come, have their fling then you (hopefully) get better). I do think the best thing that could come from all this is that we relearn the community spirit and how to help each other that our grandparents and great grandparents relied so much upon, except theirs was a war of munitions. Ours is biological.

People also need to stop stripping every morsel of food from supermarkets. Hoarding all the food, toilet paper and other things (or much worse, selling on essentials at a high price) is just selfish and greedy. It's sad that people are doing this and it's the vulnerable who can't get out much (or like me, not at all) who are unable to get some bread, milk or even food. And who really needs 5 tonnes of canned food?

Right now, the best things we can do is social distancing and self isolation. We all need to pull together and prevent this from spreading, maintain hygiene and protect our most vulnerable people. Make sure that we use the technologies we have to communicate and make use of Facebook and other platforms to forge communities. When the virus is finished, we'll need to pick up the pieces and share what we learned from it. Who knows, your community could be brought back together and we could start helping each other again? 

How good would that be? So, friends, please stay safe and let's all get through to the other side of this!

Til all are one.

Wendy xx