Its worse the second time.

The last few weeks have been really weird living in Melbourne . The city is usually crowded with people walking in long winter jackets. It sometimes rains suddenly without warning , and people run to the nearest shelter. The days are very short , and people lap up multiple cups of coffee and run in the parks. Pubss, restaurants, hotels are always full, no matter what time of the day it is .

But you would be hard pressed to realise that this is the same city we're living in right now. There is nobody outside, absolutely nobody. Melbourne is now in a stage four locked on restriction. State of Victoria is in stage three locked on restriction. until a few years ago, Melbourne was known as the best city to live in the whole world. The irony of it. Despite being a properly planned city , with excellent infrastructure and better than average governance, the city has gone to the dogs. If you people, mind you are very few small number of people, never thought of staying in during the restrictions imposed in the first wave lockdown. And now the larger city and the entire state is paying its price for it .

It's always tougher the second time around. During the first wave lockdowns, the people were largely confident that we will be able to easily beat the coronavirus . After all we are the Australia ,the country which survived the last recession. Even when the lockdowns were announced, there was sheer optimism on the walls and on the internet . Those storeys of optimism going around , people were donating money to the poor, the needy, the sick . people for donating things like toilet paper dried foods to those in need. Many were keeping teddy bears on the windowsills so children could count them . But the second time around stop that optimism is gone for the better. the number of positive cases is now more than three times the big count from the first wave . More people have died . There is nothing to be optimistic about.

Countries like Australia have a problem, they have never seen Days of restriction. The citizens often strike and shut down the streets, but they have never seen a day when the government shuts down the streets and forced people to stay home. such things are only heard of from developing nations like India, or a failed state like the current USA. People here have always been free, as a country and as individuals. So when a law is passed requiring them to give up those freedoms, they don't know how to react. For the average Australian, giving up a full few days of freedom is OK, but anything more than a week and the people will start to revolt. They don't understand staying in . These are people who spend more time outdoors than inside their homes anyway.

But there's always a first time , specially days like this pandemic. There's a lot riding on this latest stage for restriction. It's not only the entire country, but the entire world watching us right now. It is essential for everybody in the country to follow the government imposed restrictions this next couple of weeks in order to ensure we come out clean on the other side. As I've said before, we are at war . We are fighting an invisible enemy. But the good thing is we don't have to go out and fight listen to me.

All we have to do is shut up and stay home.