To a New Dawn: Letters of Solidarity Anthology

ELLIE GREEN, 16 Dear Covid-19, I hope you are happy. All the lives you devastated. All the celebrations you ruined. I hope you are happy.

You sent the world into a mass panic when you started stealing lives. Lives that were not yours to take. Toilet paper and pasta went flying off the shelves. The UK was sentenced to lockdown just because of you, you silent killer. Over a million deaths were caused by you. Why do you have to be so cruel? Everyone wants you to leave and stop hurting us. Why can’t you listen? You have already taken enough.

Students in the UK missed out on everything. We missed out on sitting our exams, partying at prom with all our friends and leavers’ parties. The results which were given to us were unfair and some students were even robbed of opportunities just because an adult did not give them the right grade. It is all because of you. You caused all these problems for us. You made us students miss out on the most important time of our teenage years. We will never forgive you.

The hardest thing you caused, that I had to deal with, was not seeing my grandparents. I used to see them every day of the week for different things. But you made it impossible for me to see them. For me to abide by your 120