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Do you feel more healthy than you did at this time a year ago? Less healthy? About the same?
As for my health I guess I feel about the same… I can tell I’m aging… maybe not as gracefully as I’d hoped but not sure I can blame the pandemic for that…so far I’ve been spared CoVid, but the specter is always there. I work at a theater and our doors are open, but will the audience come? Do I want them to? Each person is another potential source of infection. Where is the line between living your life with cautious optimism, and maximizing protective strategies by isolating? What’s the trade off between physically healthy and emotional deprivation? And if we answer that for ourselves throwing caution to the wind, is it fair for its potential impact on society? Yes, you can chose not to get vaxed, not to wear a mask, not to socially distance…but not sure you can then blame the government, the politicians, the news media, the overworked nurse or burned out doctor if you fall ill and are not getting the care or service you think you are entitled to. Too many people are focused on their individual rights, and not on what might be for the good of the whole.
December 24, 2021
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For many people, the pandemic put travel plans on pause. What about you? Are you traveling, or planning to travel, again? If so, when, where, and under what conditions?
The first priority for travel for me was Hawaii I live and work in the American Southwest Before the pandemic, about once a year I would visit my parents and other relatives in Hawaii and on the West Coast When the pandemic lockdowns first started, I flirted with the idea of flying to Hawaii to wait out the pandemic there In the end it was two years before I was able to go, from October 2019 to October 2021 The picture above is probably the most unglamorous photo of Hawaii you've ever seen My parents are low-key hoarders and the house is full of boxes, newspapers, clothes, take out containers, and the residue of seventy years of living I realize how fortunate I am to be able to afford to fly back and forth, and to have parents who are still living independently, in reasonably good health I'm grateful the vaccines and other preventive measures lowered the case rates enough to be able to fly back without having to go through a quarantine. If it had persisted longer than a few years, I don't know what I would have done
April 12, 2022