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I think the whole world is in crisis at the moment. Humanity is fumbling from one catastrophe to the next. Natural disasters abound from earthquakes and volcanoes erupting to, some say, human set fires that have wiped out most of the indigenous animals of Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, we have the coronavirus which is sweeping the world. It\nastounds me that, the government are setting guidelines to keep people safe.\nHowever, we are hearing about people partying and holding barbecues, flouting\nthe safety rules, and all because the weather is unseasonably quite warm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Then you have the \u2018yobbos\u2019 who are spitting at the police,\nwho are trying to disband crowds for their own safety. Also, I heard that two\nIceland delivery vans had been torched by these imbeciles. These vans are\nessential to the elderly, disabled or infirm to ensure they have essential\nfoods etc. And is this all done in fun??!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It absolutely beggars belief to be honest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why, as a supposedly intelligent race, do we never learn. We\nhave had countless wars where millions of people have died, but we continue to\nfight each other. Is it racial or religious intolerance, do we despise the\ndifferences in people, and if so why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nature provides us with many different species, and greed\nand vanity impel people to destroy and kill, or own such that should never be\nowned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there is hope, I heard the news today and\napparently the ozone layer is healing itself. Pity we can\u2019t help this along by\nhealing each other too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being kind to each other is really easy\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found this the other day in my belongings, I was doing a\njournalism course, and this was the first piece that I wrote, and never had the\nopportunity to hand in. A few weeks after writing it the powers that be decided\nto drop bombs on each other\u2019s countries due to the virus that sped up and\nkilled people in their thousands and on a daily basis. There was no warning at\nall, and after it ended there were not many people left. We were lucky, I\nthink, but don\u2019t know if we are going to survive. There is not much left, food\nis very scarce, as there are not many buildings still standing. There are\nlittle pockets of people getting together to look after each other. I think\neveryone is shocked to still be alive to be honest. I just have the backpack\nthat I was carrying, and was down in the lower floors of the university\nstudying. I had just got up to get a book when it happened so was protected by\nthe shelves as they fell. \n\n\n\nI guess being kind to each other was too big an\nask\u2026\u2026.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think the whole world is in crisis at the moment. Humanity is fumbling from one catastrophe to the next. Natural disasters abound from earthquakes and volcanoes erupting to, some say, human set fires that have wiped out most of the indigenous animals of Australia. Now, we have the coronavirus which is sweeping the world. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10158782359051062_103813597863211":"","twitter_1225722811282530305_1225722811282530305":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121,203],"tags":[204],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-121","category-april-2020-crisis","tag-crisis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sbrNJE-crisis","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swanseawriterscircle.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}