The internet appears to be up in arms today over the appearance of a new lockdown-related hashtag.
#ThingsIWillMissAboutLockdown has popped up on Twitter over the weekend, and folks are absolutely fuming about it because, well… lockdown is very much still a thing for a lot of people.
The response has been so intense that any tweets that genuinely listed what people will one day miss about lockdown are almost impossible to find. Instead, what you’ll see is a wave of Twitter users stressing that COVID-19 is still prevalent and dangerous.
Folks are seemingly frustrated at the idea of people talking like lockdown is on its way out, when the rates of coronavirus infections are rising. On July 4th, over 200,000 new cases were confirmed, globally.
This week, America broke a global record by reporting 55,000 new cases of the insidious virus on Friday, July 3rd. Florida alone saw 11,400 new cases on that date.
As the devastating situation in Victoria demonstrates, we are far from done with coronavirus and the necessity of lockdown is not going away anytime soon. What is clear from Twitter’s response is that folks are not interested in speaking about missing a tragic time they’re still living through.
Perhaps instead, we should be focusing on our commitment to keeping one-another safe and supported in this uncertain and scary time. Chat about the end of lockdown can kick off when we have a vaccine, people.
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