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Things are not great, Bob.
We're setting daily records for the number of new covid-19 cases. Our federal government has checked out, if they were ever even interested in our health. People are refusing to wear masks as a partisan issue, and sometimes just as a laziness issue. Everyone seems to have moved to the "ignore it and maybe it will go away" phase of reopening society.
Spoiler alert: it's not going well.
How have things changed for us?
Well, I've stopped freaking out every time R goes to the grocery store. Mostly. He's started running, which I'm really happy about. Of course he has lost weight during quarantine; I have not. Men. :)
I'm participating in a pay/work reduction program for the summer, where I'm taking a 25% pay cut for an extra two days off a week. I am loving it!
With those two days, I'm trying to do what I always say I would do if I had the time: volunteer.
That's hard to do in a pandemic while staying safe, but I've found a food pantry that needed drivers. I pick the boxes up from one person, get a list of addresses, and deliver food to four homes. I wear a mask, and we are supposed to stay socially distant from the people so I take the boxes up and knock and then stand back and make sure they're there to get them. It mostly works, except for if there are men home they want to try to help me unload and I'm still working on dealing with that.
I'm also volunteering for text and phone banks to get out the Democratic vote in Florida - I adopted it as my swing state from the VoteSaveAmerica.com website. I'm also trying to do work in Georgia campaigns as well, but those opportunities are harder to find.
And I've added two more points for infection: a nature walk with a single friend where we both wear masks and try to stay as far apart from each other as the trails will allow, and an hour of playing tennis with my tennis coach and one other person. I'm the only one wearing a mask there :( but it is outdoors, obviously.
But all of these are points that could lead to me getting infected, and I feel guilt and worry around that.
*The date on this post somehow got changed and I don’t remember precisely what day I posted it so I’ve just made my best guess.
We're setting daily records for the number of new covid-19 cases. Our federal government has checked out, if they were ever even interested in our health. People are refusing to wear masks as a partisan issue, and sometimes just as a laziness issue. Everyone seems to have moved to the "ignore it and maybe it will go away" phase of reopening society.
Spoiler alert: it's not going well.
How have things changed for us?
Well, I've stopped freaking out every time R goes to the grocery store. Mostly. He's started running, which I'm really happy about. Of course he has lost weight during quarantine; I have not. Men. :)
I'm participating in a pay/work reduction program for the summer, where I'm taking a 25% pay cut for an extra two days off a week. I am loving it!
With those two days, I'm trying to do what I always say I would do if I had the time: volunteer.
That's hard to do in a pandemic while staying safe, but I've found a food pantry that needed drivers. I pick the boxes up from one person, get a list of addresses, and deliver food to four homes. I wear a mask, and we are supposed to stay socially distant from the people so I take the boxes up and knock and then stand back and make sure they're there to get them. It mostly works, except for if there are men home they want to try to help me unload and I'm still working on dealing with that.
I'm also volunteering for text and phone banks to get out the Democratic vote in Florida - I adopted it as my swing state from the VoteSaveAmerica.com website. I'm also trying to do work in Georgia campaigns as well, but those opportunities are harder to find.
And I've added two more points for infection: a nature walk with a single friend where we both wear masks and try to stay as far apart from each other as the trails will allow, and an hour of playing tennis with my tennis coach and one other person. I'm the only one wearing a mask there :( but it is outdoors, obviously.
But all of these are points that could lead to me getting infected, and I feel guilt and worry around that.
*The date on this post somehow got changed and I don’t remember precisely what day I posted it so I’ve just made my best guess.
