To those of you out there operating under the belief that social distancing is a bunch of bullshit and we are all overreacting and need to calm down and take a klonopin:
Congratulations! Congratulations for participating in the massacre of stupidity that is unfolding around us. Kudos to you for ignoring the news and thinking that just because it happened in China that it can’t happen here.
Except it is happening here. And because we didn’t have the common sense of Australia, who cracked down on this shit ASAP, what we are facing is going to get exponentially worse. Planet Earth is the only game in town right now (God knows Australia sure as hell doesn’t want us), and there are no safe havens left.
But one of the very few ways we can try to stop the situation from getting worse is to for as many of us as possible to STAY HOME.
Do not pass go, do not collect $200, do not make the assumption others like me who are SCREAMING this message from the rooftops are a bunch of tin foil-hat Chicken-Little proselytizing doomsday preppers. I’m the kind of parent who lets her kid eat food after it’s been dropped on the fucking floor.
I am sanitizing every goddamn thing in sight.
I have put my parents in lockdown because they are over seventy and my mom is immunocompromised. My husband and kids and I are not leaving the house for two weeks in hopes we can see them again in person – after which my mom and dad will remain in lockdown, and we will continue to practice stringent social distancing. The alternative means facing 18 months or more of what is essentially house arrest, as indicated by some projections of how long it will take for COVID-19 to be within our control.
If you have the ability to stay home, then STAY HOME.
Stay home for the people who HAVE to go to work – our asses staying inside means it helps reduce the chances of them getting sick.
Stay home for those who are immunocompromised or in some way are medically fragile.
Stay home for those who are suffering from domestic violence and now are literally trapped under the same roof as their abuser.
Stay home for the kids who rely on school lunch and breakfast to eat, or for the kids whose only safe respite is school.
Stay home because you now have a once-in-a-lifetime legit reason to not go to the gym.
Stay home because you can Netflix and chill, 100% guilt free. Unless you’re a parent of young, curious children who are easily bored and if so, best of luck to us all.
Stay home for everyone who is self-employed, or are small business owners, or anyone whose form of income is reliant upon people gathering in groups of 10 or more.
Go out only for essentials, stridently demand people respect your personal space (if they’re smart, they’ll be running away from you, too), and then get your ass straight back home and wash your hands like it’s your job.
This is not the time to go do this really cool thing with a bunch of other people because reasons and you’re just so tired of being stuck indoors.
This is the time to try and bridge the gaping intellectual chasm that is our leadership in DC, and hope that it is not too late. No one wants your Darwin award by proxy. STAY HOME.
(Please reblog, write your own missive, whatever. Or share why you’re staying home, who are you staying home for – or even why you cannot stay home, and why it’s important those of us who are able to keep our asses inside actually STAY inside.)
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