Lockdown 179

Lockdown Day 179 - 21 September 2020

First day of Level 1. I drive past a drive through pathology testing facility for the virus. After weeks of seeing no queues, today the queue was around the corner. I wonder if these are ill people or travelers getting ready to fly somewhere in need of a negative test result to be able to get on an international flight. 

And then I wonder if I would travel in an airplane at all at this stage. I suppose a mask is mandatory, in which case I would think twice about the flight hours. 

After a near panic attack behind my mask a few weeks ago where I really did not know how I was going to do this all summer, who knows what'll happen if I sat masked in an aeroplane for more than 10 hours! 😳

If you are wondering about how the face of international travel will look post virus, here is an interesting article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52450038

Travel in our own country has already picked up and we hear of more and more people going away for breaks, albeit close to home. 

I wondered about the benefits of breathing another place's air, so to speak. What does it do for us to see other scenery? 

This is an open question we need to answer for ourselves by creating opportunities to change our scenery even if it means finding another place to sit for breakfast or taking another route to work. 

I retire with these words in Job 12:7-11, 

“But ask the animals what they think—let them teach you; let the birds tell you what’s going on. Put your ear to the earth—learn the basics. Listen—the fish in the ocean will tell you their stories. Isn’t it clear that they all know and agree that God is sovereign, that He holds all things in His hand— Every living soul, yes, every breathing creature? Isn’t this all just common sense, as common as the sense of taste? "

Ggt.