Quality of Life

Aside from work at the hospital, I haven't been inside the walls of a store or public space since 3/12, when they announced the elementary schools were closing. That evening I got rice, potatoes, pasta, eggs, instant noodles, and prepared to live simply.

There's something people don't realize about this stay-at-home business. "Stay at home" means stay at home. In order to protect yourself, your family, and especially those in the community more susceptible to illness, you (and everybody else's who's doing this) simply can't keep going to the stores constantly for things, and even going as far as searching several stores because you really want that one thing.

In the current situation, you cannot expect to live the same quality of life you did before. Actually, since you homeschool now, your quality of life is ruined anyway, so everybody needs to seriously lower their standards...for everything.

This is a pandemic. People are dying. You cannot expect the same level of gourmet meals, comfort food, craving-satisfaction, homework completion, zero-screen-time, etc. This is not a divorce from a wealthy ex, where you get to demand all the things you think you deserve, the quality of life you were accustomed to before. This is life or death, and your behavior can save lives or hasten the death of exponential numbers of strangers or even loved ones.

Aside from thinking of others when I stay at home, I'm also thinking of myself. It makes my blood boil to hear that UC Davis and those Boston hospitals are claiming that their healthcare workers that tested positive had been exposed "in the community" and not at work. Really? You think? They work 12 hour shifts at a hospital around all the rona positive patients, but for sure they were exposed while walking their dog or getting gas?

So yeah, no stores for me, because if I get sick, nobody gets to say I "got it in the community".

Unamused Bear is unamused.