Lockdown 8

Lockdown Day 8 - 3 April 2020 

Rainy days have an enchanting air about them, especially when you're home. You don your comfy winter clothes, slip on your winter slippers and whip out that cosy top you always wear this time of year. And of course every hour or so you have a steaming cuppa to get you through the day's work. 

Which is pretty much how this day went after I tackled my walking route again, this time ditching a most unwilling dog ( to her this was getting weirder by the minute!) and keeping at it until I clocked up a proper distance. 

Later we had a discussion over the idiocy of people who still do not stick to lockdown rules. I was suddenly reminded of how humans react when confronted with isolation and incarceration. There was this study done on Nazi prisoners of war where the longest time span prisoners would wait while being tortured before they talk was 42 days, in other words 6 weeks. It didn't matter how badly they were tortured or for how long, they would talk after 42 days. It is also said that when on a diet, you should have whatever you want on day 42, otherwise you're going to binge after that anyway. Now I know this isnt a diet (maybe It should be), nor are we incarcerated (could've fooled me), but we are mostly isolated and 21 days is just half of that. But maybe we should plan to do something out of the ordinary on purpose on day 21. Also because it is entirely possible that we may indeed see day 42 in Lockdown. Sobering as that may be, we need to think differently about this, and fast. After seeing a video of an experiment showing how droplets are dispersed, I vowed to try online shopping (otherwise known as hurry up and wait), still not really believing this is happening to us. One thing I know for sure is I have a choice: I can let this beat me up or I can find tomorrow's music, and hearing it play, start to dance to the music today. Heaven knows God's well and truly got this.