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I am one of the lucky ones. My life hasn't changed much since a pandemic took over the world. I still have a job. I still work full time. A homebody with no real friendship group to speak of, the loss of socialising hasn't affected me that much.
Of course things are different. I do miss my family. Board game nights with my brothers. Date nights with my fiancee. These days the only place I go other than work is the supermarket, and if I didn't like grocery shopping before this, I certainly don't like it any more now. This panic buying and hoarding is just pathetic. We're all scared, but hundreds of rolls of toilet paper, packets of spaghetti and liters of hand soap is not the answer. There has always been more than enough for everyone, but some choose to be selfish and the rest go without.
Having turned 30 at the beginning of the year I didn't know how the start of my third decade alive would go; I certainly didn't anticipate this. Perhaps my fiancee and I would finally get married, we'd sell our place and move somewhere bigger, maybe take our first overseas trip together (her first time overseas). But instead we got COVID-19.
And while I have the greatest respect for healthcare workers, emergency personnel, supermarket employees, anyone on the front line, all of whom I cannot thank enough; this pandemic has proven one thing. People are selfish, and Australian "mateship" is a myth. People are looking out for themselves. Grabbing as much as they can, everyone else be damned. People are having parties, whinging about being put up in 5-star hotels, while the vulnerable are dying and the true superheroes are risking their lives so you can live another day.
Of course things are different. I do miss my family. Board game nights with my brothers. Date nights with my fiancee. These days the only place I go other than work is the supermarket, and if I didn't like grocery shopping before this, I certainly don't like it any more now. This panic buying and hoarding is just pathetic. We're all scared, but hundreds of rolls of toilet paper, packets of spaghetti and liters of hand soap is not the answer. There has always been more than enough for everyone, but some choose to be selfish and the rest go without.
Having turned 30 at the beginning of the year I didn't know how the start of my third decade alive would go; I certainly didn't anticipate this. Perhaps my fiancee and I would finally get married, we'd sell our place and move somewhere bigger, maybe take our first overseas trip together (her first time overseas). But instead we got COVID-19.
And while I have the greatest respect for healthcare workers, emergency personnel, supermarket employees, anyone on the front line, all of whom I cannot thank enough; this pandemic has proven one thing. People are selfish, and Australian "mateship" is a myth. People are looking out for themselves. Grabbing as much as they can, everyone else be damned. People are having parties, whinging about being put up in 5-star hotels, while the vulnerable are dying and the true superheroes are risking their lives so you can live another day.