Life was a little simpler during early lockdown days. We’d shelter for a few weeks while the government sorted things out, and then life would return to normal, or so we thought. The cluster of new cases in the northeast Chinese city of Shulan confirms this is not the case. Meanwhile, leaving lockdown comes closer to some as national economies and personal finances take strain.
Anxious Uncertainties Await Us after Leaving Lockdown
We’ve all become a little more self-sustained during shelter. Our society shrank to the people we live with. When tension resulted in sparks, we retreated into our own world for a while. And now it seems we must return to the ‘real world outside’ where the virus has not gone away as we hoped.
We’ll have to re-accustom ourselves to being in crowds of people whose movements we cannot control. However, this time we will at least have our face coverings and hand sanitizers to comfort us, if we believe in these things. Here are recent statistics based on information from World Bank and John Hopkins University. The crisis will still be upon us after leaving lockdown.
COVID-19 Cases per Million Inhabitants: A Comparison: Statista.Com: CC 3.0
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Returning to society will not affect us all the same way. Extroverted people may welcome it, and be on an excited high. Introverted people could be even shyer at the other end of the spectrum. We will have to hold these differences in mind during the first few weeks after leaving lockdown.
Nick Tasler writing in Harvard Business Review has wise words of advice for dealing with change. He says the most important thing is hanging on to our family, friends, values and faith while it happens. He believes recalling these stalwarts to mind creates ‘a surprisingly powerful buffer’, against whatever is troubling us at the time.
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