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Severe drought, fires, flooding and a global pandemic. Sound familiar? This is what Australia has been experiencing in the past 6 months. News of the fires traveled internationally, Australia was burning. As the fires started to dwindle away we were faced with yet another natural disaster, flooding. We had no time to recover. News started circulating of a virus, but at that point we weren't concerned, we had to help friends and family recover.
About a month later, there was a confirmed case of Covid-19 at a Boys school in Sydney. That's the type of thing you hear about on the news and think, "that will never happen to me." Suddenly we start hearing more and more about this virus, it's spreading, rapidly. Toilet paper, hand sanitiser, soaps and other cleaning products start to disappear from store shelves and videos circulate of people fighting in stores.
Restrictions on many items were put in place after that. Numbers at schools start to decline and our school announces that during this time, we will be doing online learning, that was a shock. However, I feel that during this time, Australians have developed a nationwide sense of community and we have all started to learn how to do our part to help others.
About a month later, there was a confirmed case of Covid-19 at a Boys school in Sydney. That's the type of thing you hear about on the news and think, "that will never happen to me." Suddenly we start hearing more and more about this virus, it's spreading, rapidly. Toilet paper, hand sanitiser, soaps and other cleaning products start to disappear from store shelves and videos circulate of people fighting in stores.
Restrictions on many items were put in place after that. Numbers at schools start to decline and our school announces that during this time, we will be doing online learning, that was a shock. However, I feel that during this time, Australians have developed a nationwide sense of community and we have all started to learn how to do our part to help others.