Covid Guidance for Ghostkin
Continue your normal routine of haunting your house, and passing no further than the weed-tangled garden gate. You may look wistfully from the window at a life which passes by, but which you cannot touch.
Do not interact with humans physically - do not walk through them, and ensure they are 2 meters away from your personal electromagnetic field. Always catch your electroplasm in a tissue and dispose of it. Possession is right out.
Touch: always a sensitive subject for the lovelorn ghost. Viruses can stay alive on surfaces for at least 72 hours - if not longer. Humans must avoid touching regularly touched surfaces (handles) and also their face (eyes, nose and mouth). Ghosts ought to refrain from attempting to touch anything at this time - especially grasping strangers with icy-grip-fingertips, and walking through doors.
Contact with the living is permitted in the usual ways: including hauntings by telephone line and radio wave; calling out unseen from the darkness; the suffusion of a particular perfume throughout the room; the melancholy strains of a violin echoing in the hallway.
Do not attempt to persuade the human cooped up with you to murder his wife and son or twin daughters, regardless of how long he has been the caretaker
Some ghosts must continue their everyday work. These include the shadows who lurk in hospital corridors; the howling spirits of the Underground; the vague miasma of loss which drapes over the mega-mart at 2AM. If you are the life-sapping creature which skulks next to the office photocopier whispering "don't forget you're here forever", you should not be there. If the master-ghoul of your workplace insists your apparition is essential, consider calling the Gatekeeper and consigning them to the eternal torment of limbo.
Do not attend any haunted ballrooms, libraries, cinemas at this time.
If you are a very friendly ghost in good unhealth, consider raising your disembodied hands in the service of the unfortunate mortals around you. We all have a part to play, from the ghost in the machine who can update a community Facebook page, to the winds of a windless day blowing flyers around the area, to the uncanny levitation of food and medical supplies onto an elderly neighbour's front step.
To prevent your energy-signal from becoming a carrier for shadow matter, immerse your hands in soapy water whenever you come through the front door, prepare food, touch things from outside, and more frequently in general. Regardless of whether or not you can feel the water. Try washing your hands for the duration of singing "Happy Birthday to You" twice, in a minor key. You'll be sure to make the neighbours think some kind of haunted doll tea party is going on, and that's the sort of things which can really lower property values and discourage city slickers with a flair for 90s interior design from attempting to move in.
If you were an unsuccessful, tuberculor young poet of homoerotic verse or a consumptive flamelike girl of fragile beauty, it is especially important to stay away from others. Look out for dry cough, or a fever; refrain from materialising for 14 days.
If time ceases to have any meaning, this is quite normal. There is no cause for alarm.
