PANDEMIC: What People Are Spending Their Time Doing In The Lockdown

Time doesn't last forever

The pandemic coronavirus outbreak had to stilled many activities. In most countries, businesses were shutdown for now and almost everywhere schools were also closed all with the effort to reduce the rapid spread of the deathly virus from person to person. Government and Health organizations have advised lockdown and social distancing which are now observed in most countries. Its being weeks now and people are already getting tired and bored of staying at home but while they still remain home, these are some of the activities many people when asked said they engaged themselves and their families in doing.

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1. Staying Fit And Active

Most parents who usually don't have time for physical activities with their kids now have much time to do physical activities such as; sit up, press up, skipping, and so on after weeks of eating and sleeping with increase in weight and fat in the body. The easiest and best way to keep fit and active through this period is to engage in physical activities.

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2. Playing Games
Students who have spent most of their time in school since schools resumed now have time to stay at home and play video games. Kids don't have to go out to neighboring houses and join friends to play games but rather stay home and enjoy it with their younger or older ones. Also, parent are now involved in playing video games with their kids.

3. Family Devotion

Most families who are always engaged with handling their businesses have no time for prayer meetings nor bible studies at home with their kids. But today, most of these parents now have the time to do so without distraction.

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4. Learning New Things
Some students when asked what they are spending their time doing during the lockdown, some simply said they spent their time learning programming Language, some said they are using the opportunity to read new books and story books, some simply said they are learning new football skills whereas, some are learning to stay at home.

5. Understanding The Reality of Life
When asked, a person heavily said, this time has brought me to my sense again and in this case, i spent most my time thinking and trying to understand the reality of what is happening in the world today, he went further and said; "since the number of people who died due to coronavirus within this short time is great and continuous, then man will not live here on earth forever, life is truely short and I must rise to do what I must do before my time comes."