IN the Czech Republic the second wave of Covid virus has hit with a vengeance. So strong in fact that it is the worst in Europe, probably the world as far as deaths per capita. The hospitals will be overwhelmed very soon, maybe in the middle of November if things continue the way they are going.
People are angry with the government, as they seem to be around the world with their own governments, for supposedly "getting it wrong". Read about the Netherlands where the population used to be proud that their government was the most efficient, smoothest perhaps in the world. Not so anymore. Meanwhile in the Czech Republic people might say the government had 6 months to plan for a resurgance and ... PLAN. And what did they do? They took a summer vacation. As a result, here it is, take two. With a coming tsunami indeed.
I say, well look at your own glasshouse dad. What did you do and are you doing a better job now than in April?
Personally, what did I do to prepare for a second wave of corona virus? Well, we took a trip inside the country and close to home. In other words, we had a summer vacation.
Last June, at the end, the kids were at home, my wife had home office and was at her wits end perhaps and she was very angry with me. I wasnt doing enough. I wasnt taking care of the kids enough. She wanted to leave and take the kids with her at least then she wouldnt have to take care of me. But as summer went on, we worked hard, the kids went to a summer camp, we got the apartment painted and did some other upgrades before we all went on a very nice summer vacation together. We were very happy by the time school started again in September. Then the second wave came in the middle of October.
My wife exploded at me the other night in anger and said, well, that I wasnt doing enough to help out with time and money. Kind of what she said last June. What have I done in the last 4 months? I, um, took a nice summer vacation.
The lesson? The bad situation itself can change and get better, but unless you take care of the problems that arose during the bad situation those problems will happen all again because you did not take care of them. You will be in the shark tank in "bad situation 2" unless you do something about those circumstantial problems. I did not do enough to get rid of the reasons that made my wife angry with me during lockdown one. So that when lockdown 2 came, she exploded at me for the same reasons. Get it?
There must be an Aesops fable for this.
