How am I coping with the lockdown? In Suriname we couldn’t talk of a lockdown, because Surinamese people are very hard headed people. We won’t do something when we don’t see the benefit of the whole lockdown. Corruption is very high in this country, so when you have allies or people working in the government. Having a pass to travel in the country is easy to get. Multinationals are still producing within the COVID-19 lockdown. It is the people of the lower level of this society, who doesn’t have any work, stay at home with no money at all, small business who has to innovate, and also doesn’t need employee, because they aren’t making profit. I get a little frustrated. I am used to go out on the streets, hang out with friends, go to the movies, and take a long drive. There was all my escape to not do what I mostly love- writing. I do write, occasionally. The thing is I could go out, out of my safest space, no restrictions made, and now you are restricted by the government. You feel like all the dystopia movies you once saw, for example; ‘The Divergent trilogy’ or ‘What happened to Monday’. I get bored by social- media. There is nothing social about that platform. Everyone is either angry, jealous & vicious at, proud of, agreeing to, turning against, supporting and defending a system that will not be beneficial for us on the long run. We will be divided into groups and it may seem for the best to have one supporting system. In the end it shall bite us in our fucking ass.
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