Editor's Note

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone noticed the wave of Covid that is currently causing many of us to drop like flies across the region?

It seems every second person I speak with has a recent Covid story!

In fact, I have my own to share.

When I saw the sinister two blue lines appear on my testing kit I have to say, I was a little apprehensive!

This was my first Covid experience, and I was bracing myself for a horrible week of sore throat, possible breathing issues, fevers, sweats and all the other side effects people complain about.

I immediately isolated myself and called the school to arrange to pick up my son.

This was, however, the first of many phone calls where I realised how much our response to Covid has changed since the height of the pandemic a few years ago.

The school administration lady told me there was no need to pick my son up unless he showed symptoms and she divulged that she had also had Covid a few months ago.

Later that same morning I made a work-call to a friend, and she told me she was also isolating at home, having got the dreaded Covid earlier that week, but still feeling well enough to work remotely.

A few days later I spoke to another client/friend who’d had it some weeks prior, and she thought it gave her a new armour – she was glad she’d got it before Christmas and now felt invincible!

There are two things I am glad about with this new attitude towards Covid – firstly that it is becoming normalised instead of feared, and secondly, that it is normalised because thankfully people are no longer dying from it.

We are largely vaccinated, symptoms are decreasing (it is now similar to a flu), and many of us are accepting that it is travelling across the community, but we are no longer scared.

We are free and living a slightly altered, highly sanitised life where we are respectful, cautious but also at ease.

Rach

Quote of the Week: “Fear is interest paid on debt you may not even owe” (Unknown)

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