Social Distancing

For the past 3 months the news has been dominated with Coronavirus or Covid-19 which is a respisratory disease similar to Sars in the early 2000s and MERS. At first I thought it was going to be a pandamic similar to H1N1(swine flu) or Dengue both of which I had and recovered after a week or so. Not deadly, nothing to worry about. This March the death toll for Covid-19 increased rapidly with some countries going into complete lockdown like Italy, Iran and China and other countries banning or limitting travel significantly. 

Malaysia has implemented Work from Home for the next 2 weeks and most of my friends and family are off work and school. Most internationals here have left for home and the entire course has gone online. I've been at home for the last 5 days and the days feel so monotonous. I've had a cold for the last week so it's best that i'm self-isolating but the boredom strikes! I'm not the most socialable person but I do miss going in to classes physically and meeting friends. 

The scary thing about the virus is that it can be lethal to older people and those who are immuno-comprimised which is why everyone has to stay home to minimise the spread of the virus. Schools have closed, unis have closed, and most jobs are recommending work from home here in the UK. Everyday the death toll goes up and there's not enough tests available for everyone and the hospitals are overflowing. People are stock piling toilet paper and pasta and tinned foods. We had to go to 3 different places before we could find any toilet roll last week and so many items in our usual grocery shop was unavailable. I never would have thought that something like this could happen in 2020!

Some things that I've been up to recently is that James and I have been rock climbing consistently again. I've started baking more. The brownies and pancakes were a success but the cookies sadly were not. I wanted to start baking something new every week but James is blaming me for making him fat and has requested I stop for a few weeks. :( 

I tried a no sugar diet for about 3 weeks! It was so incredibly hard, there's sugar in everything! Even pasta sauce and bread and oats has about 5 grams of sugar without adding anything and we're only allowed 25 grams a day. I do think that after doing the no sugar diet my body needs less sugar and dessert. The first week was tough but the 2nd and 3rd week I barely craved sugar and now things that seemed normal to me before is suddenly too sweet which is good! You can condition your body to adapt to anything.