The world, a former bustling Hive that was torn apart by a virus leading to discord and malicious behaviour exposing the frailty of us all
2019, oh what a year it was the final year where cities were bustling hives, markets crammed with people, workplace lunches, weekend clubbing and BBQs with mates as we talked about all the questions of the universe over a few beers.
I remember it well as the year ticked over to 2020 I finally started to advance in my career picking up a senior legal contract manager position and a few side gigs. This was it, my big break. Life was going great and all in time for the arrival of our second child.
Unfortunately the universe had other plans more than a spanner or wrench in the works. It's more akin to pouring napalm down an ant whole, over kill. A new pathogen emerged but I wasn't too worried as we had been hearing over the news for the past decade, swine flu, bird flu, Ebola and none of it really happened to us. Except my partner got swine flu and ended up really crook from it, I didn't because I took the Tammy flu tablets they gave us and it seemed to work. Wife missed a day or two and her line of work as a nurse put her in harms way. But we survived so COVID wasn't a concern for us at the time.
But it didn't take long for discord to set in amongst family and friends expanding into divided communities. As vaccine mandates continue to arise households remain divided as do friends and community members. A sad state of affairs where people can not decide on what to do and disagreements emerge and people avoid each other out of fear Has he been vaccinate? Omg I just pumped into someone, hope their vaccinated
What started as dividing words slowly escalated into protests as people take to the streets in the hopes of altering government and business positions.
We're almost two years into this global pandemic and 2019 is but a blur, a distant memory of what once was, a time we all long for a year we want to return to. To be with our friends, our family, our loved ones. Heck even that annoying co-worker George who always heckles you and drives you insane! The one you wish you didn't have to see everyday, yeah. I'd give to hear his annoying voice and crappy dad jokes and office pranks.
Unfortunately what's replaced the crap dad jokes and office pranks are malicious behaviours amongst friends and country men and women. Once who stood arm in arm United are now all but divided as the vaccinated belittle the unvaccinated and the pro choice movements take to the streets. Will we ever return to a world of normality or are we doomed her on in?
Globally this has been met with force and at times violence from both sides of the war waging amongst friends. Back in 2019 we shared beers now we share rubber bullets, a past time is what we long for when we were all once together.
Regardless of what side you stand on when it comes to the virus or vaccination, this pandemic has exposed the frailty of people and how easily we are broken and turn on each other. When we all seek but the same thing, peace, love and freedom.
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Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I had a rough idea what I was going to write just needed a few days to mul it over.
Excellent overview of the past two years, yes people turn on each other very quickly when scared or uncertain themselves.
Hopefully one day soon things will be sorted out that people may be able to continue along this road called life.
Yup, it has been hard and I can not wait for this all to be over and done with. Fingers crossed that it is soon
Appears patience is a waiting game at the moment, stay safe and enjoy life as best as we are able.
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Thank you my friend, I really appreciate it. This has been the biggest gift Hive has given me. To learn to write in different formats and to think outside the box
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Fantastic post!
A good overview of what humanity's response to the virus has done to our communities in terms of the effects of fear and lockdown and media manipulation and hype. And I agree that this certainly has been a downside. I also happen to see the flipside of the coin too, whereby a mutating virus has also brought people together in heart and mind. Sure, there is discord between opposing views but within each visionary perspective, there is a coming together, cohesion, and commitment to each other. To protect and support each other. Frontline workers have been and continue to be a guiding light to the people in the way in which they have pulled together with compassion and dedication. I personally have not seen the discord and fallout amongst friends and family that you describe, but then maybe we are just fortunate here in the UK. Friends and family have weathered the storms of covid together, even across the miles that divide them. Communities have been more neighbourly, dropping off supplies for the ill, playing taxi to the vulnerable, delivering food to the needy. Pharmaceutical R&D ramped up and big pharma worked together with Universities and governments to deliver working vaccines to hundreds of millions around the globe, often at no profit to themselves. In my view, we should not overlook the amazing coming together in heart, mind, and soul that this virus has also produced.
Thought I'd add that here in the UK, in my view, we saw a far greater fallout between family, friends, and co-workers over Brexit than over Covid-19 ;-)
Thank you for that, thank you for the point of view from Brexit as its not something I have been in the know about. How is that going atm?
It's crazy how different government attitudes and implementations around the world have affected people so differently in the past 2 years. It's not been a bundle of fun here by any means and it has been emotionally hard for so many people. I think Australia and New Zealand have had a better handle on the virus through swifter and stricter implementation of lockdowns but clearly that has had the other unintended impacts that you speak of in your article. I would hate to have to be leading the governing party in any country and trying to work out what the best balance and answer to this whole thing might be. As for Brexit, it tore divisions in households and broke up families :-( Those who voted to leave were seen as denying generations of British citizens the rights that they had come to love and hold dear: as Europeans, members of a common block, with the right to live, work, study in all nations in the EU. A true privilege for which one has to pay! Those who voted to leave saw an imbalance of power in the EU that threatened British independence and took an inequitable amount of Sterling from the UK to fund its projects. The Vote leave campaign won by a small margin, however, it was later proved that their campaigns had been fraught with lies and deception eg: the bus campaign which touted how much the Uk was paying to the EU each week and that we could use that money in the NHS was a purposeful misdirection and obfuscation of the truth. They failed to admit that a large portion of the monies mentioned were actually already given back to the UK in EU grants and people who had voted off the back of those lies afterwards said they would never have voted to leave if they had known the truth. Once the campaign had won the government did not use all the EU membership money to fund the NHS either. The politician who helped to spearhead us into this mess on the quiet got his kids' European citizenship so that they were not affected by the outcome. So much distaste on all fronts. We still have major issues with Fishing rights arguments with the EU, Intelligence sharing rights, shortage of HGV drivers and health workers, but they say the economy is predicted to grow substantially in the near future. Who knows what the future will bring in the perfect storm that is the aftermath of Brexit-Covid.
The pandemic altered a lot of plans and also disconnected the friends hangout. I could only imagine how terrible it was for you, no for everyone when their set goals had no means of coming to accomplishment. This discord by the pandemic was terrible, but we are happy for life after the whole event
Thank you for your comment and yes it has been extremely hard. It's been sad seeing the Discord caused and the division but we will get through.
Surely, we always do get through
Where I live vaccination hasn't been much of an issue, but I can relate to what to say here.
We had been divided on should lock downs end, should people get back to work.
However, all this seems insignificant now. The question now is what is normal, have we been slowed mentally tuned into accepting whatever comes our way as normal.