Not gonna lie human family, this is scary. The atmosphere here at home is so tense and the uncertaintly and fear is paralyzing.
I live in California where our governor has issued a ‘stay-at-home’ order for all non-essential business. It doesn’t matter which category you fall (essential industry or non-essential), the anxiety is still unbearable.
If you are in the non-essential industry, you worry about loss of income and even more concerning, possible loss of employment. How are you goinng to survive and/or support your family? What if you or someone else needs medical care and you have no insurance on top of no income? ‘
If you are in the essential infrastrcture like my husband and me who work in healthcare, you worry about taking the risk home with you and possibly infecting those around you. He and I are required to come to work, him more so because he has direct patient care than I, who do remote patient care. I worry about him as much as I worry about my high-risk family due to their age and pre-existing conditions. I’m less concerned about myself though I am also in the high-risk category due to long-standing pre-existing conditions of diabetes and hypertension. I worry about my ailing and frail grandmother with dementia who is currently isolated in a nursing home who are not allowing visitors to reduce the risk with their population.
It’s all so surreal but I continue to have hope. Hope that this dark, dark cloud the entire world has been plunged under will pass and we can all bask in the sunshine together again.
This highlights something very, very important human family. We are ALL in the same boat. COVID doesn’t discriminate. Underneath it all, skin, job or no job, wealthy or not, IT DOES NOT CARE and it WILL infect. If there is any time, any time at all for the human family to band together to protect what matters, it is now. Please. Help each other. If you are in a position to self-isolate at home, please do so. Protect those who are not able or cannot protect themselves. Protect those that risk their safety and the safety of their families to care for patients. Protect your own loved ones from the risk of potential suffering and death. Reach out to each other via other means to keep our connections strong, even with physical distance. Take precautions by using anti-bacterial sanitizers and maintaning at least 6 feet apart from others.
I know it’s scary but we’re all in this together human family. It’s going to take our entire village to reach the end of this tunnel to the rainbow at the end. We’ll get there though. Take one day at a time.