12th November XXXXX

It's been ages since considering an old habit from when I was younger. Even since I was able to learn to write, I would write a diary page of events. Like birthdays or holidays with family. I dropped this habit due to secondary school exams and just being the teenager that I was at the time. But it's been nice to see my mother still has my box of diaries from when I was in Primary school. She sent those to me the other week and I have been going through them. Laughing at my own nonsense and seeing the problems I can cope with now. Rambling, as always.

In having moved into university dorms, cutting away the responsibility I had as a pet owner and as a carer for my mother. To move away from what I knew and the comforts of having someone else home all the time.

My mentor and tutor recommended for mental health and practice in writing reams of writing. I should write a basic paragraph of my life everyday. Not to much to get in the way of life or study but not to little to make it pointless. I thought it was a stupid idea at first, months and months. I had put off doing it.

Yet then the world changed. Not drastically. Just not in the ways I had expected. Being even more isolated alone then I ever been in my life. I am sure its everywhere about how and what is going on.

A summary would be...

Ten years ago there had been first news documented outbreak of farmers life stock having to be incinerated. This wasn't passible to humans or other creatures; as my teacher would say 'the transmission between host types is not compatible due to the virus's way of attacking the immune system and the way the DNA of the virus would have no impact to anything else'.

nine years ago, a science article I found while researching my uni work had called this a sheep's tear flu. Symptoms included constant toilet issues, runny nose, constant tears and nausea. The sheep are more likely to die of dehydration then the actual flu. It had no way of mutating to cause harm towards other stock like cattle or pigs. Even lesser chances of mutation to affect humans.

Five years ago, was a update of the clean up operations. Reports about improper disposing of carcases. It were blamed for a mixed amount of reasons from it being ill educated folks, local budgeting cuts, lack of facilities or 'that there was no point in wasting hard breed quality meat because of a infection that doesn't harm much at all'.

Two years ago, the strain of virus was found in the fox populations and among other meat eating creatures. Including rats. There was a outcry and a lot of protesting. Yet with the change of government type, the slide of the news covering other bigger news and people not caring to fact check. Nothing was thought of it.

Last year, the first human case was reported. It didn't take long to infect the country but it stayed localized. A vaccination was rolled out 3 months in.

2 months ago, I have contracted the strain. I did get the prevention jab, so I am having milder symptoms. I have no need to be under a IV drip due to the high hydration it causes. I checked in with a walk in centre whom gave me the time off needed and I was totally back to normal by the time I returned to full study.

This summary isn't short enough... I will have to practice another time.