6. DAILY MUSINGS DURING PANDEMIC COVID 19--NOTHING IS NORMAL

3.22.20  NIGHT THOUGHTS:  Let's get this out of the way first: I cried all morning, missing my grand girls already after their week with us.  Wondering how I can figure out how to see and hear from each other during this social distancing thing.  I hear other families are using Zoom conferencing, getting together but staying 6-9 feet apart, FaceTiming on the phone etc.  We can do this, but I long for those big hugs that are so much a part of our family time.   I also think I'd held so much in last week, that my emotions about all of this were bound to spill out.  They did.

The virus now has descended upon a friend in NYC.  At least she thinks so.  She has all the symptoms, but was refused a test because her temperature was not quite high enough to "qualify".  But they ruled out everything else so told her to assume she has it.  The lack of testing is a travesty and while I have no energy for political ranting right now, the current "president" and his administration have totally screwed this up, with their slow response to the inevitable, the downplaying of the severity of the situation, and refusal to use WHO test kits in favor of letting private providers develop their own at great delays and no labs to read and interpret them.  We have no idea how many people are infected, but it's way, way more than we know.

Today I was grateful for another sunny day, a long walk, moving furniture around to accommodate a designated yoga space at home, a quiet dinner with Hub, and looking forward to some TV time tonight.  Not much different, really, than a normal Sunday.  Except the nagging knowing that nothing is really normal right now.

At least, that's the view from here...©