COVID has us seperated but STEM keeps us united

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COVID has been hard on everyone, many of us have lost income, lost businesses, lost homes and almost our sanity. In Australia we have endured some of the harshest restrictions on the planet with Lockdown totaling over 200 days. At this stage the impacts are starting to take a toll on everyone.

With the recent Delta outbreak which has caused significant concern as it now has the potential to harm kids. Childcare centres, schools and even local play equipment are off limit.

Our kids have suffered the most throughout this pandemic and the younger they are the harder I believe it is. As a parent of a four year old and one year old my one year old was born in lockdown and knows no different. He also doesn't know anyone beyond his immediate family.

My four year old is a bit more under pressure, with the first two years being born in a Virus free world she was out with me every weekend as we explored and even remembers the holidays we went on, even flights and longs for a return to normal.

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Where there is plenty we can complain about, there is also alot more that we can be greatful for. I keep reading through old journal articles of the 1920s and the Spanish Flu.

I think about how hard it would have been to be isolated without the luxuries of today. As right now I'm writing a blog on STEMGEEKs. I talk crap in discord channel with people all across the globe.

I have Netflix and pretty much everyother streaming service that I waste money on because the kids just watch it. But beyond that, I am still connceted to family.

Lastnight my son and daughter spent a few hours on video chat to my mum who not too long ago went through a separation as her partner, my step dad cheated on her and left her for another woman. (Does that happen in late 50s?) So mum's been quite down and isolated in her own small little unit. She was kicked out with nothing.

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When my son was born she dropped off some essential items as we couldn't leave and she caught her first glimps of him through the loungeroom window. It was a heart wrenching moment. Restrictions ment we weren't allowed out to visit but we were allowed out to exercise. So we'd jump on my bike with a baby seat attached and ride past nonnas and wave to her out front as we rode past.

But again all this comes from an extremly privileged position in life and history, in 1918 when the Spanish Flu broke out technological advances as well as engineering wasn't that far advanced and if you were isolated, you were isolated. Where I can even connect with relatives overseas in 1918 is you were on another continent you'd have to wait for the mail if it was still in operation, much of it was shut down. Yet here I am face to face in real time with my mum and my kids.

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I even got to witness my nephew in a regional town have his christening as regional areas didn't have the same restrictions as metropolitan areas. All of which would have been impossible for the four years that the spanish flu ravaged the globe.

Even now, STEM continues to advance communities and keep them connected even more than before. So I wanted to take some time just to pause and thank the world of STEM for what it has delivered to our society. Throughout all this hardship it is what has kept the world connected and me my sanity.

I want to hear your good news stories about STEM, how has STEM helped you through lock down?

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I can't believe what your government is putting you through, not that ours isn't trying...

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