Published by Dylan Ramsay on 02/10/2020.
The Modern Dystopian Social Dilemma – or, for short; Coronavirus.
Partners, and even families separated for months on end, and friends who haven’t seen one another in over half a year – and now, students. Specifically, written from the accounts of those around me. Unable to make friends or interact with those they aren’t housed with, all at the mercy of those above them, with no clear ruling, in an ever changing number of restrictions often without a clear directive. What happens should these students be housed with people they don’t like? Or they require support from those they can’t see, and are burdened with hidden illnesses, albeit mental or physical who find the times we live in challenging?
From what I can gauge, everyone has differing views on the matter, often polarizing. I could put fifteen people in a room, and all fifteen of them would give me a completely different viewpoint on their experiences during the last year we have dealt with the outbreak of Coronavirus, along with their views on how it should’ve be handled. The one thing I can say for certain, is that our current government haven’t done the best nor all they could have to deal with the situation at hand, although many believe that they have done the best by their abilities given the unknown nature of what they had to deal with, side-lining the fact that their response initially could have been better. The current issue appears to be largely in communication, with rules and restrictions being bent to the will of those who set them, and only applying to those who they wish it to be – because of course, Covid can’t get you if you’re in a group of six or less, or after ten at night, but hunting in large groups is completely fine.
In recent news, students and young people were blamed for the Covid spike, though being told by our own government that we needed to do our part and ‘eat out to help out’ and to spend our money, which is the closest to the old saying of cutting off the nose to spite the face as possible, and unfair to the generations which are one of the few groups being impacted most.
For university students, who are currently travelling across the country to go to university, Coronavirus is an unavoidable normality, as people from all walks of life are congregating in one location, which is nigh on guaranteed to cause an outbreak of coronavirus, and has on many campuses; but those students are the country’s future workforce, and one the government can’t afford to lose with the impending financial crisis on the horizon.
I’m not sure that anyone currently has an impartial position on the matter, with even the most middle ground news sources having personal views, as it has affected everyone in a different way. The most that we can do as people, and a population, is to take things as they come, and to do our best to work together with what we have, to push through, hoping for a brighter, less restrictive future.
However, this is only one of the many issues the human race has to work through, as we have a much, much more difficult road ahead of us.
Keep well, and stay safe.