I thought I was going to manage to #stayathome for the whole of today. However, that was not to be. And on one hand, having to venture out, protected by a tin can, showed me just how little heed certain groups of people are taking to PM Lee's (Prime Minister of Singapore) televised plea, last night, for us all to stay home.
My morning started much like any other Saturday, I don't go out. Some exercise in our basement den, finally properly repurposed as a gym with rings, mats, steps and weights, and of course, a beanbag.
Then three hours on tutoring on line. Teething problems aside, as students familiarise themselves with working on shared documents, the novelty of being able to share a screen, a video and a whiteboard has created a different kind of engagement and focus.
We just need to provide our students the space to be creative and to explore the many modes of learning we now have at our disposal.
So, my day started positively and constructively. Outside, the road and forest around us was quiet. People had, it had seemed, heeded the previous evening's advice; although it was a dry, balmy Saturday afternoon, families and friends were staying home, just like my family was.
But then, we needed to go out. There were urgent groceries to be done for the parents-in-law.
And then we saw the mass of Saturday afternoon picnickers in the park, crowding into the Holland Plain park connector park, playing, conducting tennis training in the dipped area over the canal, and families and groups cycling, walking and chatting nonchalantly in the middle of the road. One would only have to add music and streamers and it would have been a carnival.
Where have all these people been over the last two weeks or even 100 days? Did they not get the message?
So, once again, my post ends with a rant -
Stay - Home - and - Stop - Being - Selfish
not just to yourselves, but to your family, friends, others and more to those who are risking their lives to look after the sick, deliver your groceries and fripperies, deliver your food order and clean up after you.
Today, the case-load is 191, the majority of which come from community spread. Over the last week, the numbers were dominated by cases from the foreign workers' dormitories. This is a sobering wake-up call, that unless we take #socialdistancing and #stayathome measures, the infection rate will rise, not fall, and the sacrifice of the many will have been spoilt by the ignorant few.
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday, whether you are Christian, religious or agnostic, take a moment to reflect on how your actions or inactions contribute to the chaos of the world. For once, please, #stayathome. Go and eat chocolate.
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