Abstract
I am currently self-isolating for 3 days, having recently undertaken precautionary testing for the coronavirus. This has provided me with the valuable opportunity to reflect on how profoundly things have changed in the 6 months since our last editorial.
The world has changed from the one we knew in ways that few would ever have imagined; a health crisis on a scale that has not been experienced since the global Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–1919. This has brought with it a drastic change to how we live, work, interact with our families and socialise with our friends. Social isolation, home schooling and work ‘pivots’ – even bulk-buying of items we would never have previously thought essential – have become the new norm. What we now consider to be ‘normal life’ is extremely different to that experienced just a few short months ago.
The world has changed from the one we knew in ways that few would ever have imagined; a health crisis on a scale that has not been experienced since the global Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–1919. This has brought with it a drastic change to how we live, work, interact with our families and socialise with our friends. Social isolation, home schooling and work ‘pivots’ – even bulk-buying of items we would never have previously thought essential – have become the new norm. What we now consider to be ‘normal life’ is extremely different to that experienced just a few short months ago.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1-3 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Australian Journal of Cancer Nursing |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 2019 |