COVID 19 Story Hi, my name Is Andie, and I am currently living through COVID 19. I thought 2020 was going to be awesome, I was starting high school, going to make lots of friends, turns out it is the opposite. It started with the Bushfires which devastate

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Name
Andie
Age
12
Location

Bowral NSW 2576
Australia

COVID 19 Story

Hi, my name Is Andie, and I am currently living through COVID 19. I thought 2020 was going to be awesome, I was starting high school, going to make lots of friends, turns out it is the opposite.

It started with the Bushfires which devastated Australia. At least 1 Billion animals perished, 2400 homes lost, 29 people dead and lots injured, and tens of thousands of people evacuated, including me.

This was an awful way to start of 2020 and it was about to get worse. As the Government was thinking about How are we going to rebuild? Is the scorched land ever going to recover? We were hit with COVID 19.

The COVID 19 prompted schools to shut down, people to remain inside their homes to contain the spread of the virus, and many more restrictions. The Chinese world health organisation was notified about the Coronavirus on Jan 9, believed to have started in a wet market in Wuhan. As the Virus gets bigger, spreading to countries all over the globe, we injured a 11-week learning@home. Luckily now there are 7,913 cases in Australia, 6,614 recovered and 103 deaths.

In conclusion, from this experience I have learned to believe and hope. Believe that everything will be ok, and to hope that one day our world will be the same again. My high school life is returning to normal; we still must do the usual hand sanitise whenever you enter a classroom, but don't have to social distance. Through this I can’t doubt that I have felt anxious, but now I feel quite hopeful.

To my future self, “You have lived through a global pandemic, fought of the fires, so you can overcome the bullying, heart break or trauma you may be going through. I love you.”