Lockdown Letter #1

Dear people of the future ,

My name is Alice, I am thirteen years old, I live in the north east of England in a place called Durham and I'm currently living during the Corona virus outbreak. Everything is closed and everyone is struggling but we are all pulling together as a community to stop the spread and save lives, so in the little spear time I have wile juggling school I thought I would right you a letter to give you a insight of what life is during a global pandemic.

It's not easy to be inside all the time. You grow sick of your family and miss your friends which is quite a problem for me as I go to a vocational boarding school called the Hammond where I live with my friends and they a family to me but we all live around the country so we couldn't meet up even if we wanted to. And at home I only have 2 friends that live in Durham everyone else I used to know hates me because they think I will be a brat since I went to boarding school but beside that it is against the law at the moment to see more than 1 person outside your house hold and you must stay 2 meters away which I find ridiculous considering death rates aren't getting any lower which may lead to a second peak. What is a peak you may ask well in these circumstances a peak is the point where the most people are dying in a day from covid-19 with England’s death rate up to 36,654 as a total and may become higher in days to come.

It's hard to be so unsure. To not know when or if ever they will find a vaccine for this virus or if life will ever be the same again and really just the general worries. Such as will I ever dance in a studio again, will I see my friends, what if my family get ill or dies and will the NHS get through this. If you don't have the NHS in your lifetime it was a incredible group of doctors and nurses who risked there lifestyle every day for minimum wage from the government out of our taxes to keep us safe and well, they were selfless, brave, they never gave up and to be honest they are our heroes. This is why to spread hope we put rainbow's and teddy bears in our windows to show appreciation as well we stand at our door steps and clap for our brave front line worker's.

But it's not hard to spread hope. Hope is the motivation keeping this country tougher and hope is really all we can have right now. So if you are ever in a tricky situation like the people of 2020 remember that we spread hope and you can to, even in the little things like remembering to give family a ring or simply saying thank you for what you have cause we didn't have a lot of things we only had each other. In the words of the British community “We are all in this together.”

Best wishes from Alice