The Shut-ins guide to the lock­down 2

Hello again every­one, last ar­ti­cle I wrote about the ex­pe­ri­ences I had dur­ing the time of the Covid-19 Lock­down. This ar­ti­cle will be look­ing into the life of an­other per­son out­side the United States and a very close friend of mine. Barry Athila-My­ers in Thun­der Bay, Canada

We sat down in a dis­cord call on a nice af­ter­noon and I de­cided to ask a few ques­tions, which he gra­ciously agreed to an­swer about his time in lock­down. Here are a few of his an­swers af­ter we sat down for the call. 

How did you first re­act to hear­ing your area was get­ting locked down? 

“I was hon­estly re­ally wor­ried about my jobs see­ing as I was in the food in­dus­try.” Barry works at a ma­jor chain restau­rant so the lock­down struck him hard, chang­ing work hours and some­times not be­ing able to work at all.

Has any­thing re­ally changed for you since the lock down? 

“Be­sides work hours I’ve been work­ing around the house more as I am off work more fre­quently.” He found be­ing with fam­ily to be a good thing, try­ing to help around the house to al­le­vi­ate any pain.

Do you have any funny sto­ries about this time? 

“due to my lock­down, we have a lot of free time on our hands. I walked in early to clock in only to see every­one danc­ing to bo­hemian rhap­sody. Not much at home” Seems across the world bore­dom makes for strange events, but it shows that peo­ple can come to­gether to lessen the pain and bore­dom of this un­sure time.

Lastly, Do you have any words of wis­dom or en­cour­age­ment for those in lock­down? 

“best thing I can say is, just find a hobby or some­thing to oc­cupy your time or else you’ll go stir crazy.” This may seem like a sim­ple tip but it is very im­por­tant. This is a time where you need to find some­thing to do that will take your mind off of the bad. Be it books, movies, games or mak­ing mod­els for ex­am­ple. 

I want to thank my good friend Barry for tak­ing the time to dis­cuss these things and it is rather eye open­ing to see just how the rest of the world han­dles such a time.