Living Small

Courtesy of Geek Out Huntsville 

Been thinking about the enormous misery Americans are going through right now. Despite your belief in the validity of the pandemic, we are still in a spiral - emotionally, physically, environmentally - and the coronavirus or COVID-19 is going to be with us even after the number of new cases diminish.

Now is the time to have that heart to heart you’ve been wanting to have with yourself but can never seem to find the right moment to bring up the topic of how will life change after the pandemic is over. Today, Bette Miller on Twitter quoted Arundhati Roy who is telling us that we are going to have to rethink what normal is for most Americans. The sudden halt to commerce, travel, immigration, public spaces - all this is going to have to be rethought moving forward. It’s a disaster but people are waking up to some hard truths about American society that we’ve obfuscated for generations, and have dismantled over time, like the concept of equality for all. People who had steady employment are now laid off like they don’t exist - this many people out of work is unsustainable. We will implode if this continues.

In other news, there’s going to be a huge food giveaway tomorrow morning at the Alachua County Fairgrounds and I volunteered to help with the distribution. I was advised to bring a mask but not gloves because the CDC hasn’t recommended it, which is a ridiculous reason for not letting people bring gloves.