• psud@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    My cousin was a teacher during COVID, working in rural Australia.

    There wasn’t enough internet there for video, there was barely enough for email. So he was driving to a different student’s house each day and teaching one kid at a time

    I think he was only responsible for a handful of kids

    That was the busiest time at work for me, I work in government information technology and my team was delivering a system to help businesses keep paying their locked down at home staff. We had to work in the office, in a place designed to hold a thousand people, but only twenty of us were there, until we were enabled to work from home

    COVID was worse than any fiction I ever read. So many people died. So many people live-blogged their own deaths

    • TriflingToad@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      wow that’s a lot worse than my story of a stupid boat, crazy that there are still people that don’t have stable Internet.