Uncertainty with positivity
Coast. Younger has taken over her beauty room now and uses her massage table as his work desk.
Even though Jackson is not even 2, he senses something serious is happening around him.
It is corny, Tafeamaalii thinks, but she is taking pictures of her son every day during the lockdown and is making him a pandemic photo album. He is living through history. The scary part, she told Peter, was that by the time Jackson was 20, he might have already lived through a couple of pandemics.
Recording history for
12, started on Friday, March 20, when he sat down and started writing a diary of his life after the arrival of Covid-19.
School camp has finished, Dad picks me up and tells me the virus has gotten worse. How can so much change? It has only been a week. People are talking about a lockdown. What does that mean? Things feel so uncertain.
Zephaniah Joe,
Now Zeph goes for a run every day in the countryside near O¯ taki, at the very north of the Ka¯piti Coast. At midday, he and his family go for a walk around the big paddock on their property.
In the past weeks he discovered he would not be going to school, the upcoming rugby season would be cancelled, and there would not be any services at the O¯ taki Baptist Church. It is to protect the older members of the congregation, Zeph knows, but, still, it is weird not going to church on Sundays.
Anyway, life in lockdown has been passing quite quickly. You do not feel isolated in the country – it is not like being stuck alone in an apartment building in the middle of the city.
Back in the city: the reactions that Wells got on the near-empty streets, as the waving bus driver, filled his heart with positivity.
In 2010, Wells came to New Zealand from Britain, leaving behind parents, both in their 80s, in a village in Oxfordshire.
Wells was planning to visit them in August. He may never see them again.
They are anxious about him and Wells is anxious about them but as long as the internet holds up, their video calls are a reassuring connection.