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I wasn’t surprised COVID19 happened to the world. Many experts had been predicting a serious virus would hit humanity. I wasn’t surprised either that no country was really prepared. Collectively, humans aren’t very smart. I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand the illness and keep up with what’s going on worldwide. It’s exhausting.
My family hasn’t been affected by sickness or death yet. However, keeping employed has been very difficult for two of my daughters, although I’m so proud how they coped, adapted and ultimately triumphed despite everything thrown at them. My other daughter also adapted well with all her work going online and sorting different childcare arrangements for her 2 year old. My husband and I already had very stressful temporary and casual work situations so nothing much changed there, except we had the benefit of Job Keeper, which felt good for a while.
Our parents are elderly and in the UK so we are quite worried about them. Thankfully they aren’t in aged care, but if they get sick, we won’t easily be able to go over and look after them and it will be even harder to return to Australia. We had a great holiday booked for June in the UK as it was my parents 80th birthdays this year. However, it soon became clear that we wouldn’t be able to go. The worst thing was unpicking all the arrangements and trying to recoup the money. It took many months and was quite difficult but eventually we got nearly everything back. I don’t know how we’re going to feel at the point when/if something happens to them, so I try not to think about it. We’ll just have to cross that bridge when we come to it.
My family hasn’t been affected by sickness or death yet. However, keeping employed has been very difficult for two of my daughters, although I’m so proud how they coped, adapted and ultimately triumphed despite everything thrown at them. My other daughter also adapted well with all her work going online and sorting different childcare arrangements for her 2 year old. My husband and I already had very stressful temporary and casual work situations so nothing much changed there, except we had the benefit of Job Keeper, which felt good for a while.
Our parents are elderly and in the UK so we are quite worried about them. Thankfully they aren’t in aged care, but if they get sick, we won’t easily be able to go over and look after them and it will be even harder to return to Australia. We had a great holiday booked for June in the UK as it was my parents 80th birthdays this year. However, it soon became clear that we wouldn’t be able to go. The worst thing was unpicking all the arrangements and trying to recoup the money. It took many months and was quite difficult but eventually we got nearly everything back. I don’t know how we’re going to feel at the point when/if something happens to them, so I try not to think about it. We’ll just have to cross that bridge when we come to it.