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I am a working mother of 2. When the Covid-19 crisis hit in January/February 2020, my anxiety levels went through the roof. Both my children are in primary school, I work in administration in a High school and my husband works in Medical Centre IT.
Schools in NSW didn't close. We are open for essential workers, and as I am expected to go into work everyday with no work from home option, nothing has changed for us with this crisis.
My anxiety is extremely heightened. I am using as much protection as available to prevent infection. We have masks and gloves but the children do not wear them at school.
Washing hands has become a requirement at every possible opportunity. When we arrive home at the end of the day we change our clothes and wash our hands and faces. I wash clothes every day and am acutely aware of what we touch and I have become OCD with cleaning the house and doorknob hygiene.
Most of the world is in isolation with work from home options and boredom videos and 'things to do in quarantine' filling the internet.
I long for this. I want the quarantine. I want to be at home with my children, keeping them safe.
Schools in NSW didn't close. We are open for essential workers, and as I am expected to go into work everyday with no work from home option, nothing has changed for us with this crisis.
My anxiety is extremely heightened. I am using as much protection as available to prevent infection. We have masks and gloves but the children do not wear them at school.
Washing hands has become a requirement at every possible opportunity. When we arrive home at the end of the day we change our clothes and wash our hands and faces. I wash clothes every day and am acutely aware of what we touch and I have become OCD with cleaning the house and doorknob hygiene.
Most of the world is in isolation with work from home options and boredom videos and 'things to do in quarantine' filling the internet.
I long for this. I want the quarantine. I want to be at home with my children, keeping them safe.