Covid19 has broken the world, crushed it. This NO good nuisance is washing over the earth like a tidal wave, soaking the continents. Devastating hundreds of families. New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, put us STRAIGHT into lockdown, Level 4. It acted like an invisible shield! Other countries considered it like an adorable kitten, but that kitten immediately went savage.

Jacinda’s decision saved us! Don’t you think?

Covid 19 is something that the world just didn’t take seriously. Funnily enough,one miniscule country flattened the pandemic of the century. WE took it seriously.

Others may think that children should have been able to go to school, but covid spreads extremely fast. So, let's say I contracted covid, and gave my friends a hug. THEY would get the virus. In fact, everyone I had been around might get it. Their families could get it! It just keeps going and going and going. What if YOU got covid?

Not going to school kept us safe. If we had, there would be so many more cases. Konini school has nearly 500 students! Going to school would have been a slippery slope. If families had a loved one with respiratory problems like asthma, pneumonia, or lung cancer, contracting covid would be disastrous. What if one of YOUR family members died of covid? How would you feel?

Would your stomach churn like a sea of violent indigo waves? Would your face turn a white as chalk?

Would your heart sink as low as earth's core?

Home schooling children is a massively difficult thing to do, and it would just be easier just to send them to school, but New Zealand hasn't had a lot of deaths but they are STILL deaths.

Families who have lost a loved one did NOT wish upon a star for this to happen, but it did.

NO one wants that to happen, Do they?

To sum it all up, if we had still sent kids to school, New Zealand would be in a much different position today. 

Everyone did their bit and it helped a lot.

We crushed covid once, and we’ll do it again, won’t we?

By Kate d'young

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