Diary of a Working Married Mother: Play your part to stop Coronavirus
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The most disturbing of all are people who do not want to announce that they either have Covid-19 or suspect they have the virus.
Forget the predictions of a spike after Christmas and the presidential campaigns. We are yet to see the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. I hate to imagine what we may experience in the next few weeks. Why? For starters, all the schools were shut down.
Following the shutdown, messages went around on social media about children, especially those who are in boarding school, testing positive for Covid-19. Apparently, they have been ill but schools either did not know or did not care to find out. I do not want to imagine the number of cases we will have by the end of the week.
Secondly, several students found themselves in super-spreader conditions at the taxi and bus parks where they were unable to proceed to their homes because of lack of transport. The buses and taxis took advantage of the situation and doubled or in some cases tripled the fares. With no money to get them home, many camped in the bus parks where they spent the night. The other reason and the most disturbing of all are people who still think it is uncool to announce that they either have or suspect they have the virus. They insist on going to work, travelling by public means and going about as if everything is okay. This last batch of people just boggle my mind.
This is exhausting. As we were still digesting the President’s directives of last Sunday, we found out that someone in the building tested positive for the coronavirus. What was annoying about this case was that the staff member had all the signs but still came to work.
He even told us he had gone to see a doctor and was cleared to continue working. And he is not the only one. A day before that, we got news of field staff testing positive. It was sad because these are people we knew but what made it hit home was the fact that some people in our office had been to that part of the country a few days before we got the news. As fate would have it, they had been in touch with the affected people. They only found out about the positive cases after they had been back a couple of days. By then they had already interacted with a good number of us. And so we all had to get tested.
Last year was nothing compared to what we have been through but I am confident it will all work out for the good of all. As the President said in his last address, we are the ones who can stop the disease from spreading. I pray that we will all do our part.