Asking myself, what has changed in my daily life since all of this Pandemic started? I don’t have little ones to deal with, people to care for or other time demanding needs or responsibilities, financial woes, empty larders. I can do laundry on my rig, take a socially safe walk and so much more.
My schedule as before and now? I still get up and exercise almost daily, make meals, search for recipes in my recipe file or on line, make phone calls, email, Facebook, text, Zoom ad infinitum, watch the news and volunteer in our wonderful Jojoba Hills SKP RV Park in California. Those have not changed. What has changed is my head full of noise–concern about what is happening in our world.
Now the discovery and threat of a new vain of this Virus is in the news. Scary of course. The latest take by the experts is that it is not more dangerous, however possibly more easily contagious and it will respond to the current vaccine. ( I am now deemed eligible for a dose in my age group), that is over 75. Not “dangerous? Just keep performing the safety practices (mask, washing, social distancing and no group encounters). Ok, but we have heard this before, way back in February; False warnings, nothing to worry about, no government guidelines in place. Later this was the delegated to each state.
The long awaited stimulus package has been past, long overdue to help so many. How many have been evicted? How many children terrorized, under educated, psychologically weakened. How many people have gone through their savings? How many have lost family members, never to share holiday tables again in the “back to normal” future?
We must continue to honor those heroes and heroines in the hospitals and front lines with few ICU beds available, trying to care for the ill, avoid contamination, administer the vaccines and keep some sanity in their homes and their own heads.
So, my daily life is only affected somewhat. I can donate to causes, help my neighbors and family and friends with phone calls an zoom sessions. But my mind still races with the woes of the century on all of our shoulders. Thanks for listening to my wanderings.