RE: My Culture Reveals Itself By Reacting to the Coronavirus
Unfortunately it is getting pretty bad here. Hopefully it will not get so bad where you are. People are saying Florida is the next Italy. A high elderly population. We shall see. My husband works at the hospital, so on the plus side he has a job, on the negative side who knows what he is bringing home with him.
I have been almost entirely secluded from society, but I did go to a plant nursery yesterday because it is a place that there are never more than a couple people and way spread out. Well, yesterday of all days the owner comes up to me - a man in his 70s and very much a flirt - and gets right in my face and starts chatting away. I was subtly trying to back away. I don't know what he has, but more realistically, he should be afraid of what I might be carrying.
I didn't think about the areas with large populations of elderly !
I haven't been out all week, but finally did go out. My left knee was crying for some advil and when I was gathering in before last weekend, I did not realize I had none. It got bad enough to make me go out to my local Dollar General. I also went to Walmart very early the next morning, went in the quiet end and got a battery for my car. Mine was leaking acid or I would not have risked it right now. Fortunately, since it was on the opposite end from the grocery section, except for the auto parts clerk, I never got close to anyone and didn't touch anything..... till it came to the credit card pad. I had taken an un-sharpened pencil I had here and has planned to use the eraser in to punch buttons, but it would not work on the screen ! argghhhh ... ha ha.... so I had to touch it and then of course once I got to the car I did the antiseptic wipe, which I can't say I have a lot of faith in and washed my hands and back tracked on the doorknobs and stuff after I got home...... I know it doesn't matter how much I think of, I can never think of it all. I wiped down the items I brought in and etc. Keeping up with all of that makes going anywhere a real chore. Worth it if it saves me, but still.....
I am working at home and feel fortunate that if I mess up and get it, I am not bringing it back home to anyone else.
My aunt next door is over 80, maybe 81. She goes somewhere every day. My uncles says he can't keep her home ! Not good ! ....
Yesterday, the first case was reported in the next city over from me. The cities are very small, so that is pretty much in my back yard. I also know that for everywhere, since so many people have been unable to be tested, that the numbers are a lot larger than reported.
When I went out those two short times, there were plenty of people still out and about.
I have tried to go to my Mom's on Sundays (she's 85) as she is nearly a prisoner at home with my step-dad (who I love) .... who has dementia and is WAY down that rabbit hole now. I feel like to be safe for her, that I cannot go today and it makes me sad for both of us.
I hope your husband will be able to stay safe from it. I admire all the people who are still going in for the others that need help.
Stay safe !!
I have parents in their 70s and a diabetic brother, so they are on my mind. I think they will be okay though. It certainly is a strange time in history, at least for my generation. It is our first real "event" that has effected our home life.
I hope you all stay well. I have migrated over to Hive now. We shall see how it goes over there, but I will be checking in back over here too.
I haven't gone over there yet. There is so much happening in the real world, that thinking of this mess here is something I can't dwell on for now. I still come vote and comment a little but haven't posted in a long time now. I'm not sure what I am going to do and may not make up my mind about it for a while.
Hope you are and yours stay safe as well. 😷🌼