Prime Minister Scott Morrison started lock down on the evening of 22nd of March, 2020 with non-essential services including pubs, clubs and restaurants closed.

Later that week, states shut their borders to non-essential travellers.

By end of March more severe restrictions were put in place, including the two-person rule and a law banning people from being outside their homes except for four essential reasons (work, groceries, exercise and medical reasons).

The Queen addressed her nation at 8pm on 5th April 👑

6th April Beaches around Australia have started to close.

Community support groups established, to support the vulnerable, elderly, immuno-compromised and people in enforced isolation due to exposure, in their community 🧓🏻👴🏻

Petrol ⛽️ price close to home 🏡 was $1.02. Saw 91 cents in South Australia.

Schools in NSW and Victoria closed as education departments implement new procedures to deal with the spread of Corona virus. 🏫Remote learning in place 🎓

Self-distancing measures required ☹️

Tape on the floors at grocery stores ❌ and others to help distance shoppers 🛒 (1.5mtrs) from each other.

Limited shopping hours, therefore, lineups outside the store doors 🏬

Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed 🚫 People who can work 👩🏻‍💻👨🏻‍💻 from home 🏡

Parks 🏕 trails, entire cities 🏢 closed or restricted to locals only in their bubble.

Entire sports ⚽️ 🏉 🎾 seasons cancelled.

Olympics postponed to 2021. 🔵🟡⚫🟢🔴

Concerts 🎫 tours 🚌 festivals 🤹🏻 entertainment events 🎭 cancelled 🚫

Weddings & funerals ⚰️ limited to less than 10 attendants,
👰🏼🤵🏻 family celebrations 🥳 holiday gatherings 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 cancelled 🚫

No masses, churches ⛪️ are closed 🚫

No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, then 10 or more. Now, Don’t socialize with anyone outside of your home bubble ⚗️

Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+, and all other TV networks are on in every home daily now 🎬

Weekly tradition in UK, every Thursday 8pm #ClapForKeyWorkers campaign, to recognise the efforts of the NHS workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic every day 🌈🌈👏🏻👏🏻

Children’s outdoor play parks are closed 🎡

We are to distance from each other. Shortage of masks 😷 gowns 🥼 gloves 🧤 for our front-line workers.

Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill 🤒 in many parts of the world.

Refrigerated trucks for the dead outside hospitals in the USA 🇺🇸 Italy 🇮🇹 Spain 🇪🇸 China 🇨🇳 and more.

Panic buying 🛒 sets in and we have limits on toilet paper 🧻 disinfecting supplies, paper towels, staple foods 🥗 hand sanitizer 🧴then alcohol 🍷 🍸 🍺

Manufacturers 🏭 and other businesses 🏢 switch their lines to help make visors, masks 😷 hand sanitizer 🧴 and PPE 🧤

Fines are established for breaking lockdown rules 🤑

Stadiums 🏟 and recreation facilities overseas open up for the overflow of Covid-19 🦠 patients.

Rescued stranded tourists to self isolate 🚐 in city hotels.

Press conferences daily from the PM 👱‍♂️ and other government 🏛 officials. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths ⚰️

Government 🏛 incentives to stay home. Barely anyone on the roads 🛣 Rescue in the form of $$ for those made redundant, or business to stay afloat and renters to remain in their homes.

People wearing masks 😷 and gloves outside 🧤

Essential service workers are terrified to go to work 👮🏻 👩🏻‍⚕️ 👲🏻

Medical field workers 👩🏻‍⚕️ are afraid to go home to their families 👨‍👧‍👦 or evicted by housemates.

In England 99 year old WWII veteran Captain Tom Moore raised £29 million for NHS charities walking 100 lengths of his garden before he turned 100. His target was £1000. People from all over the world donated to his cause. 💂🏻‍♂️🎖🏅💷

315,023 deaths globally so far.

This is the Novel Coronavirus 🦠 (Covid-19) Pandemic, WHO declared March 11th, 2020.

2020 was Harrison’s first year of Kinder, he attended 1 terms for 7 weeks before the restrictions were implemented, just as he was making his new friends, and settling into St Therese.

Our family were very blessed to have each other, mum and dad kept their jobs and we were lucky enough to see our immediate family after a few months given they live so close, but many weren’t as lucky… this was a defining moment for humanity, a period of great stress, but of great growth and repair.

We were reminded of what was important, what was to be cherished and how how to reset in a time of such uncertainly.

You will always be apart of class 2020 my darling xxx

“We have a chance to do something extraordinary. As we head out of this pandemic we can change the world. Create a world of love. A world where we are kind to each other. A world were we are kind no matter what class, race, sexual orientation, what religion or lack of or what job we have. A world we don’t judge those at the food bank because that may be us if things were just slightly different. Let love and kindness be our roadmap.”
― Johnny Corn

 

Mumma