Exactly 6 years ago, also a Monday, the abominable virus elicited a lockdown announcement which was implemented four days later.
I distinctly remember first thinking, "aaaagggh they won't go through with this" and then, "how bad can 21 days really be, we all need a good rest"......., ha - ha.
As the four days flew by, my brain was screaming, "Brakes!!!! Put on the brakes!"
I wondered if anybody ever stopped to think about this, I mean really think about the ridiculouseness of what they were about to do.
Today I am wondering if any of the people who started it actually look back now and realise the incomprehensibility of shutting down the world.
That is, of course,
assuming there was no distinct plan of getting the whole world to be só scared of an abominable virus
they would actually agree to the most preposterous thing ever in the history of mankind.
In retrospect not even one regulation of this world shutdown ever made sense. Even more so, none of them actually worked.
For me, the only valid thing was to alert people to the importance of washing your hands properly / sanitising.
What I rather would want to remember is the amazing ability of us normal people who had to survive no matter what, with a special salute to all those in essential services!
So here's to the ones who literally beat the virus and those who helped them do it, the ones who reimagined themselves and their businesses (both online and physically) and those who stood their ground even with the birth and rapid takeover of artificial intelligence.
Despite the obsessive hoarding of coffee, chocolate and preferred alcoholic beverages, we managed to come out of this a tad less serious about life in general.
And we learned to trust the One who is still eternally changeless, our Light in the darkness:
God, who still has got this.
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