Currently the world is facing a very difficult pandemic which is taking the lives of many loved ones and leaving many loved one with bad health. It is like half of the country is understanding what is happening and how dangerous the virus is. The other half don’t seem to care at all and are trying to live their lives as normal. Nearly everyone has had to make changes to their daily routines since the virus has come about. People are staying in their houses, working from home, having their shopping delivered to their houses, not meeting family and friends that do not live with them. It a big change that no one knew was going to happen.

There are so many people out that are constantly breaking the rules. I look out my window on weekends and I see people visiting their family and friends, entering each other’s houses. Children mixing together with other children from other households. Meeting and spending time with their grandparents that they haven’t seen for a week as they live with in different house. The rules clearly state that two households are not allowed to mix as this can spread the virus and be dangerous to them and others around them.

When you go to the local shops to pick up a few essentials the rules are no where near existent. There are markings on the floor close to the cashier to show there needs to be a 2m distance between each person. The aisles are really narrow so trying to go through it without meeting up with someone mid way is impossible. There is no one way system so one person can enter the shop through a different aisle and then come round. It is so hard to avoid people. When you picking your own fruit and veg, people learn over your or across your body to pick up something. They won’t understand that by doing that they are breaking the rule of 2m. But nope that doesn’t stop them. If they want to get something and I am in the way of it, then they will go ahead and take it. They may not care about their health but I do. I have people at home that at vulnerable so I cannot be a carrier of the virus. I want to be protected from the virus for myself and for them.

When you wait in the line to be served by the cashier, there are boxes printed on the floor to show where each person should stand to follow the rules correctly. You’l get some people who will keep their distance but you will always find those ones that will keep moving forward and be breathing down your neck. It is very uncomfortable. You look back at them and they just don’t seem to understand what they are doing wrong. It drives me insane. One part of me just wants to turn around and point out to them that there is a 2m rule, please follow it. Now I have just stopped going to shops like that. I can’t be putting myself at risk like that for a few things I need from the shops. I have started to go at times when I know they will not be busy, such as in the afternoons when people are at work. Or late at night after 8 when people are back home and shopping wouldn’t be something they would be doing at that time. Then you have some of the people who are protecting themselves. I’m just so annoyed that people are not taking this as seriously as they should be. Look at the deaths that have occurred over the whole world.

Look at how many people have been taken into hospital without being sure if they will ever return back to their loved ones. The number of victims there have been through this virus is terrible. It just keeps increasing every single day. It may have slowed down from how it was before for some places but as they say, we are not out of the woods yet. There will always be that fear of another peak which can claims thousands more lives again. In time life will return to normal or as close to normal as possible. But people that have lose their loved ones through this will not be able to return to life as normal. There are young children out there who have lost a parent, parents out there who have lost children and people who have lost the love of their lives.

Life will not be the same for these people at all. As soon as the word Corona Virus is back on everyone’s tongue, their pain will come back like it just happened yesterday. Some will be able to get on with their lives but others will just be stuck not knowing what life is without their loved ones.