I would have liked to say Happy 2nd Anniversary of the Covid-19 Pandemic, but I know that happiness is not used to describe the last two crazy years of living in our midst with a terrible virus.
Congratulations are more appropriate. Congratulations, because you and I survived. If you’re reading this right now, you’re alive, pat yourself on the back and maybe take a break from this break.
I call it rest because everything is broken, our spirit, our connection to the outside world, life as we know it.
Gosh, I sound so dark. I feel dark.
Two years after the pandemic, I was blank, flat, listless, and stoic inside and out.
I think I need a debrief, I think I have PTSD.
I don’t want to do what I used to do. Writing this is a chore. No, not really, I love writing, and writing has always been my outlet, letting out my inner monster. These months have been horrible for me.
I want to go out, but I don’t want to go out. I want to go on vacation, but I don’t want to. I don’t want to be here but I need to be here for my daughter and my cat. They are the only reason I am here, they need me. The rest of the world will continue to exist without me. My jowa, is my only cheerleader. I really missed him. He makes everything better.
Damn, dark thoughts.
I barely did anything new in the last year of the pandemic, well that’s not true, I didn’t do anything new outside of prison, I mean home.
I learned how to make pretzels.
I learned how to make scented soy candles.
I learned how to make pita bread.
I’m trying to play my first physical activity and it’s making me very anxious.
I tried to make travel plans but failed. repressed.
There is nothing I can expect. Nothing new, nothing challenging. I feel like I’m just a robot doing what I’m used to doing.
I feel bleak.
help?
But I really don’t know what kind of help I need, but maybe it will get me out of this pain I’m feeling. I just need a break.
I hope I didn’t hold back your hope now because hey! We’re level 1 and they’re saying we might be going to level 0, which is stupid because there’s no such thing as a level 0 alert in the age of a pandemic, because zero means when there’s a threat there’s no more. Oh yes, there is the new variant Dermicron which is a combination of the Delta and Omicron Covid-19 variants.
The world is just trying to get back to the old normal when all businesses are open at 100% capacity, and they now want face-to-face schooling for kids back too. Living with the virus is the new movement of the world. But perhaps what world leaders should be doing is helping people overcome trauma in the first place. Post-traumatic stress disorder debriefing.
But now that the price of oil and gasoline has risen to unbelievable levels, who wants to get out. This keeps people at home so they don’t waste money on food and shelter and more pressing needs like we’re in lockdown.
If Covid-19 doesn’t, we now have even more reason to stay at home, and gas prices will.
To those who lost their loved ones, family, relatives, friends, colleagues, neighbors, FB friends, I am truly sorry for your loss. I know these words are nothing compared to the sadness in your heart. The grieving process is not easy, and loss can never be replaced. I pray for your heart, mind and soul to be healed and may you live a happy life. May we all live happily, peacefully, and contentedly, and may we all overcome trauma.
What has changed since the first Covid-19 pandemic anniversary?
Second Covid-19 Pandemic Anniversary
What are the “achievements” of our country over the past year?ok we are Alert level 1 All businesses are open and facilities and public transport are operating at 100% capacity. Children 5 years and older are being vaccinated now.
Reporting on the Philippines’ Covid-19 case statistics has been downgraded to only a weekly report, so we will no longer be looking at it every day and feeling falsely safe from the virus threat. I think they do it because it’s election time. Politicians cannot run if we adhere to strict security protocols.
The last daily report (7-8 March 2022) said we were just over 800 a day. Meanwhile, in South Korea, they reach 372,000 people a day!Here are the global statistics https://covid19.who.int/
