Hallo Dear communities & Hivers!,
I feel proud to be with you Guys in this great Hive Communities. This is again one of the topical trending issues and initiative sponsoring by @theycallmedan. I deemed it a great honour to also submit my Quarantine life story about this issue of Coronavirus which tend to be hectic in its approach.
There is no comparably social distancing than village life, if you've ever been to village before. Because there, the settlement are already spacious, with especially where all the inhabitants are farming settlers. So, the only option for me to distance I & my family from the probability of becoming contact with the infected persons were to dwell in our village folk. Well, one might think this is more than discriminating our family from social bonding or love, or even stigmatizing with these persons who have been confirmed or suspected to carry the virus. But, one cannot be gambling with his life when it comes to our health issues. It's often that when you have live, you have all things!
Our arrival in the village has been a new life, though we heirs from village folk, but it's like when fish is hooked out from water, it feels uncomfortable. All the way from city to cottage, where all liquid breakfasts are solids. How can the kids be fed with rich tea, milk and toasted bread and eggs, in this wahala village life, whiles all the starved village children will be gazing at you? Meanwhile, due to the lockdown in cities there are no marketers travelling to buy items, so there are scarcity of foodstuffs. But, that doesn't matter at all with village life, we were thinking in that way; getting all provisions, varieties of food and all kinds of meat. To them, that is their allowance for staying in the village. The bush is their sources of everything.
Quarantining one self in village equals to no quarantined. Because there, the settlement issues have already separated themselves from many people. Because of they are being deprived from so many social gathering like clubs, concerts, mega parties, weddings and funerals, Dances and many other things that involve meetings, they do not care about quarantining themselves indoors. Their hobbies, friends and source of entertainment are farming. Their farms are individual farms that they go separately, unless they have communal labour or cooperate work. So, I thought being a mud fish among the population of tilapia, I will get support of livelihood village folk to side with me so that we quarantine ourselves indoors, but they took to their heel to rather quarantine themselves in their farms, leaving me and my family in the village hatch. I see this as wahala for me and my family when all the villagers leave for their various farms, leaving me behind with no Television to watch, no radio to listen, but only to hear the sounds of sheep, goats, and fowls and the birds singing all melody of songs.
I see this as no wahala for me and my family since we came into the village purposely to quarantine ourselves and to lockdown ourselves which might be far better than in cities where there are threat of coming into contact with a lot of outdoor guys who love making fans. My wife and my two kids are totally lockdown till the inhabitants return from their farms. The village yard becomes our source of tour and playing grounds, since quarantining and locking ourselves down doesn't mean we can't locomote our own vine. You will love how kids playing all sort of games, exhibiting like father and mother pounding "fufu" with our local Ghanaian dish. I would be among them also enjoying the play, whiles my wife would be the kitchen preparing meal. We would be making fans and snapping pictures. It is found Interesting when village is found of immediate source of food where plantains are grown just behind the house. I was very happy moving around the beautiful plantains around and snapping pictures.
Though, I was not all that affected with the lockdown in cities as I found my way in the village, that is my alternative way to escape from coronavirus infections. On the second note, it has created avenue for me to visit my village folks and to make fans in the village. I see this as the step in the right direction for the Government to curb or subside the spread of the virus through personal contacts. The restrictions of personal movements and commercial vehicles have really helped a lot to cut the number of infections down. We hope for things to be normal to assume work in cities, I side that let me and the family enjoy our live here in the village; "wahala or no wahala in village lifestyle."