I have been in isolation with my significan’t other since March 19th, 2020.. A date I will not forget. This is a year I won’t soon forget..
Isolation was many things in the beginning, scary for one, disheartening for an other, just plain depressing mostly. The thought of not seeing my grandchildren, my children, my fur grandbabies, my friends, going out to eat, doing anything normal.. is … well.. depressing! But then again, so is the thought we could die from this virus!
From the beginning, if we had to go out for anything, we wore masks and gloves, from the beginning, even when no one around us was taking this seriously, we did.. and we are safe, so far.
We are in the list of compromised, the high-risk category, the ones that if we got sick with this Coronavirus, we would probably not make it. So we took every precaution we could. We stayed home, no visitors, and when we did have to go out, we wore gloves and masks and brought clorox wipes to wipe down surfaces like grocery carts. And then…
They started opening up our state little by little about a couple weeks ago.. Not my county, but parts of the state.. So, did the people of my county take a hint and stay in their county and wear masks? No, they did not…
In the wisdom of small children, who do not think that rules apply to them, the people of my county decided to go to open counties, and states and enjoy the fruits of the residents good behavior, and then come back to our county.. the people of my county (and many others in many states) decided that wall-to-wall packed protests were safe.. most did not wear a mask and almost all were not following the 6-foot social distancing rule.
Now, after all of the galavanting around state-to-state and all over our state in the open counties, (and this was going on in all the states, not just mine) There is a huge uptick in cases. people are suffering again, and for some who got sick early on, still. I am still in isolation, still wearing my mask and gloves if I have to go out, and still not going out unless it is essential.
Am I afraid? yes… more so than I show at any given time, and I cry for the ones lost, some very famous, some just regular people like me, but all were worthy of living. Covid-19 is not racsist, it doesn’t attack by color or creed or religion, it wants everyone.. young, old, and in-between.. Please be safe out there.. stay safe…
… I am, so far…