Coping up with COVID-19 (Corona Virus)

Being away from love ones, families and friends is very stressful esp we are facing a pandemic at the moment. The outbreak of Corona Virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is totally pulling my spirit down. I started feeling the fear when I see the real time numbers from worldometers.info. It is overwhelming and causes a slight anxiety at times and mostly before I go to bed. I think about my mother, my son and my granddaughter back home. 

I have so much fear and worry about my own health and my husband's health as he belong to the high risk age range. We moved here just a month ago. We don't know anything much about the area and its people. As a new comer, we are literally are the ones who are hard-hit by the pandemic as I personally is still under a Visit Visa category. I don't know if the government have program to people like me. My husband is under work permit and we are both health insured through his company. 

I also have difficult sleeping at night, I am mostly awake. I can't control my emotion and it is draining my energy and motivation.

I am relieve that here in Brantford, ON the government are still open for the community to go out for a walk on the trails, making sure that everyone is still able to exercise yet very strict implementation of social distancing and practicing responsible citizen with self isolation and staying at home.

I know there is nothing I can do much but to keep me and my husband safe and isolated. Whenever we need food supplies we make sure we are 2 meters away from others. 

I badly needed a driver's license in order for me to drive legally, my 60-days grace period is almost over. But I chose to remain at home, let the situation calm down and wait till everything is back to normal before applying for it.

It's indeed frightening knowing that we are in middle of a worldwide pandemic, soon countries might be shutting down. We are all bracing for what may come, our 5 senses can not detect or warn us that our enemy is just next to us floating in the air and can attack at anytime.

​With this situation, I am thinking, "What will happen next?"

I understand that those things are now beyond my control. My only share to the world and to the government is to make sure, my husband and I remain healthy. Never be part of the statistics shown in the https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Sunset at D'Aubigny Creek Park, Brantford, ON

Have Hope. Stay strong. This too (COVID-29) shall pass.