COVID Log – Isolation Date 032320.11
Everything is surreal. Every morning I wake up and feed Fluffernut then check the damage report from the night before. Every day there are more cases and more people dead, the numbers are going up exponentially.
To make it all seem more real, all non essential businesses are to shut down tomorrow for “at least two weeks”. I am feeling a bit of panic set in. Right now it is definitely a fear of the unknown, we haven’t been told yet which shops will be allowed to stay open which means I don’t know what last minute things I need to buy. The Ontario government will be posting a list of allowed shops tomorrow so I guess we will see if I have to do a last minute panic shop. I’m sure glad that I got my craft supplies while it was still possible!
Authorities all over the world are starting to regularly use the timeline of “eighteen months” and that is a really long time. I miss my friends already, it is hard to imagine not seeing them for the next year and a half. I can understand why people are not following the guidelines of social distancing as it is clearly a synonym for “crazy making”.
There was some excitement here over the past few days when we had our own real life Jumanji incident as the local wildlife decided to go completely crazy. I think it was my brother’s fault because the night before he said he just wanted “a day where things were just boring”. The next day all hell broke loose and the saga was so crazy it has spun off into its own blog post (coming soon). I am now afraid to say that I am bored because I don’t want to have to deal with any more insanity, especially when it is increasingly difficult to attain the supplies to fix anything that goes wrong.
I managed to distract myself from the news by starting to binge watch Gilmore Girls for the millionth time. I haven’t gotten much done at all as I have been spending most days in a bit of a fog. It is supposed to warm up this week a bit so maybe I’ll be able to get out and do some yard cleanup in the next few days.
Other than doing my part by staying home, I am powerless over what is going on. In theory I know I’m no more powerless than I ever was over anything in my life but for some reason this time it all seems a lot more scary. In these uncertain times I need to remind myself to keep calm and take things one day at a time.
Our world is changing drastically day by day and it will be interesting to see how this all plays out. On this, the eve of our Lockdown, I am reminded of the ending of a favourite song in Les Mis:
“Tomorrow we’ll discover what our god in heaven has in store…
One more dawn…
One more day…
One day more!”
Thanks for sharing, Holly. A good honest post. And just so you know, there’s some serious Gilmore Girls binge watching happening in my family!!! Be well, be kind to yourself.
Thanks! I wish the same to you!