Jitter, people are a problem, they can’t seem to understand that a bit of restriction and inconvenience now means more rather than less freedom and opportunities later. Yes, I find the whole masks and limits on work a nuisance (most on my income used to come from teaching small classes in bushcraft, wild food foraging and cooking, making your own cosmetics and perfumes, brewing mead and cider, and such like skills, as well as singing and storytelling at folk festivals and other cultural festivals and reenactment events, and giving talks to garden clubs). Of course the pandemic has stopped most of that, though I still have my stall at the Farmers Market because people have to eat and some of what I sell is food, edible plants and seeds. And the local agricultural show is happening this weekend. Bit by bit, life is coming back.
But because most people except for a few idiots and some rich entitled tourists actually cooperated with the restrictions, washed their hands, wore masks and did the social distancing thing, life here is beginning to slowly open up again. The Mediæval Fairs are happening again, and other social and community events, and bits of work are coming back here and there. We are poorer and sometimes having a rough time but that is easier to remedy than is being dead of Covid. I don’t think people were quite careful enough around the Adelaide Festival of Arts recently, we have had new Covid readings in sewage samples down in the city, but things are still hopeful.
Cat and moredhel, I very much hope things get better where you are. And Jitter, I hope that your family has dodged the bullet. It is doubly terrifying when people close to you are in danger.
