The Musings of a Dik-dik

This past week since the government announced their "road map" to ease restrictions has seen huge debate on its appropriateness and the country's readiness for such changes to take place. First of all, let's address the horrendous soundbite that is the "road map" to come out of lockdown. I refuse to use it without quotation marks because, from the announcement last Sunday evening, it is anything but a guide showing us the way forward. There were so many "side roads" and "T junctions" and "traffic lights" that the term "road map" is highly inappropriate. So, some observations and reflections that I have pondered over this past week. Dates The dates set out at specific "junctions" on the "map" were optimistic at best. How can a predetermined time gap between each step of the plan (albeit with the caveat that these changes would happen "from" not "on") be truly based on scien...

Will the doom and gloom prevail? This whole period of time where we have been living with coronavirus in our communities has been difficult for the majority of us. More than difficult. It's been unbearable at times. But there are glimmers of hope for the future, however dim they can seem some days. The doom and gloom is being massively exacerbated by the media. They questioned the seeming delay of implementing lockdown. Then wanted to know immediately when and how it would end. They weren't getting the answers from the government (which is nothing new) and so proceeded to speculate and then use their own speculation as the basis for questions to the government. All the while, doing a huge disservice to the general public that they are there to serve in the capacity of being a "voice for the masses". I've commented before on the lacklustre questioning at the daily press briefings, and they get no better. I must say that yesterday's briefing was a littl...

It's so much tougher than expected. I would have said that in spite of certain eccentricities, my household is a pretty happy one. Yet, there are so many days where one of us (usually me) is griping at the other. There's no rhyme or reason to it, and has much to do with what our respective employers want from us. Mine is expecting me to get on with things at home in preparation for September. All fine with me, it's my preference in terms of what I do to earn my money. I won't go into the fact I'm being asked to do things for my new role that starts in September already. That is a little annoying, but I've dealt with worse in the past. The husband, on the other hand, seems to not need to do much at all. The occasional checking of emails, the odd response here and there and his work is done. Ever since I've known him, he's made it look like he gets away with doing next to nothing. Almost seven years later I'm still trying to work out how he does...