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Forgotten Family Ties.
When years of pain take their toll, and you move forward without brothers & sisters who don’t care any longer…
Remember the days of the old United Kingdom British Telecom television advert from back in 1995? Well, I understand the benefits of how the assistance & support that the advances made in technology overall have made to our society today. Giving light to the most recent worldwide outbreak of Covid-19 & its Lockdown protocols placed, as a result, have demoralized just how going about our daily lives and talking face-to-face with friends and family have been negatively affected in such a huge way.
Before Covid-19, both families and friends spent a lot of time visiting each other in their homes, having a coffee, and chatting about their own lives and interests together. Grandchildren would visit their elderly relatives, parents would visit their own parents — who often lived alone at that time in their own lives. Social life was just that… an active physical social life.
But by the time Lockdown was enforced across the world, this physical-based social life was badly hit. No more face-to-face social visits…
