People here are well educated, their money comes from several generations back. There are policemen on every corner, patrol cars do nightly rounds making sure everything is in order, there's only one m subway station - very different than all the other ones- in the whole neighborhood which is big as hell, there are no street vendor markets or people asking for money and so on. You can picture it, an OG Mexican posh area.
And yet, as you can see in the picture, people do not follow the preemptive measures of Covid-19. This playground was supposed to be out of use, surrounded by that yellow line that forbids kids to use it. But no, apparently kid's recreational activities come first, and the line was cut down so kids could go on and play around.
Don't get me wrong, I'm against the lockdown, but since there is still one on my city, the smart thing to do is to try and follow it, so the disease doesn't spread even more. It's not a measure I support, but unless everyone get on board then it's no use, it will all be for nothing.
Now let's indulge our imagination for a second. If all this playground issue happens where the privileged and supposedly well educated part of the population lives, then what are we to expect in other parts of the city where perhaps there are other lifestyles, types of education, priorities and necessities?
Well, I can easily tell you: the virus is spreading, it keeps spreading, it has been spreading at alarming rates - if you believe the government's numbers - and the curve hasn't even started flattening, in fact, it has an upwards trend since day one, and considering how some people won't or maybe even can't follow the lockdown measures, this will continue.
These are bad news for those who actually follow the lockdown advice and those who been sacrificing our freedom of movement while staying inside, because while we are bored as fuck inside our apartment - apart from being thankful we can afford doing that - there are people outside just living, spreading the virus and prolonging the lockdown for us.
I'm at the verge of just not giving a crap and restart my normal life. Due to Covid measures, I haven't been able to get an appointment at the German embassy to begin my student visa process so, while just wasting my time here - granted, I can do many things while waiting, but they're not the things I want to be doing, but the things I can - waiting for the embassy to reopen, there are people outside who just don't care.
That is why - or maybe I'm just defending the lockdown - we've been in a lockdown state in Mexico city for 3 months and some people estimate we'll be like this for at least another two months. So fuck this.
Fuck the lockdown. Fuck not being able to live life normally. Fuck the embassy not being open already.
I'm not mad, I'm past that stage. I'm just fed up with my third world country.