Great read. I’m in Queensland and we had similar hard borders and were relatively immune from the waves that the southern states experienced. We had only one lockdown in our area, and as a teacher I found that really difficult. We had to switch to online learning, isolate in our own classrooms, not congregate for lunch, try to keep our students engaged. I felt that they never really returned when they came back to school. Things changed a lot during that long six week period. But we certainly didn’t experience anything like Melbourne and Sydney.
Victoria and NSW seemed to have had the worst of the lockdowns. The whole work force and education is still suffering from the fallout. The only positive was Zoom in all of this. There’s so much more I could write.
A few local historical societies I am a member of here in America collected some oral histories and documented it, but what they saved agreed with what was in the news media at the time and showed people very triumphant through the challenges. What is slowly coming out now is a very different story. I've been encouraging people to save the stories of what they witnessed and experienced and save them, because in 50 years (or maybe earlier), these will be valuable. No event is experienced universally by everyone.
I wanted to say more but refrained as everyone had a different opinion and some still get quite hot under the collar when the subject comes up. Maybe when the post has ‘done the rounds’ I should edit it.
Yes it's easy to forget that we need to document our lives too. I try, but then get trapped down a rabbithole looking for an ancestor who is in the archives, whereas we're not...yet!
Great read. I’m in Queensland and we had similar hard borders and were relatively immune from the waves that the southern states experienced. We had only one lockdown in our area, and as a teacher I found that really difficult. We had to switch to online learning, isolate in our own classrooms, not congregate for lunch, try to keep our students engaged. I felt that they never really returned when they came back to school. Things changed a lot during that long six week period. But we certainly didn’t experience anything like Melbourne and Sydney.
Victoria and NSW seemed to have had the worst of the lockdowns. The whole work force and education is still suffering from the fallout. The only positive was Zoom in all of this. There’s so much more I could write.
A few local historical societies I am a member of here in America collected some oral histories and documented it, but what they saved agreed with what was in the news media at the time and showed people very triumphant through the challenges. What is slowly coming out now is a very different story. I've been encouraging people to save the stories of what they witnessed and experienced and save them, because in 50 years (or maybe earlier), these will be valuable. No event is experienced universally by everyone.
I wanted to say more but refrained as everyone had a different opinion and some still get quite hot under the collar when the subject comes up. Maybe when the post has ‘done the rounds’ I should edit it.
It’s going to be a tough subject to talk about in public for the rest of our lives.
An excellent point that we are living through historical events, and yet we often disregard them to focus on what happened to previous generations.
Yes it's easy to forget that we need to document our lives too. I try, but then get trapped down a rabbithole looking for an ancestor who is in the archives, whereas we're not...yet!