Looking around things don’t look like they have changed. I look out my backdoor and I still have a yard. When I go onto my front porch I still see neighbors walking in my neighborhood. We wave and say hi, but I have noticed a trend. It is almost like its halloween night and everyone is tricker treating. Everyone is wearing a mask. The children playing basketball only with their family members, are still wearing masks. The neighbors from down the block are walking passed my driveway and waving wearing medical masks or home made flannel masks. COVID-19 has struck and the biggest difference is at stores.
Driving anywhere feels like a ghost town. So many stores are closed and only large chain stores are allowed to be open. The parking lot is packed full of people and there are lines to get into the store. It is as we went into a communist state. Lines and people telling you where you can go. When you get into the store many sections are roped off and you have to tell someone want you want to go get it for you. I don’t see the point if someone is directly going to touch the candy boxes I pick out and ask them to get. The chance of getting the COVID-19 virus is still the same if the same person who gets my candy boxes give and received to 1000 other people on the same day. There are rules upon rules for a virus that has barely even effected my area.
Thousands of people have died from Heart Disease and Cancer in my city in the last week, but they simply don’t matter. Only the 10 that have been infected by COVID-19 matter. Nursing homes are losing people to other illnesses at an alarming rate due to their lockdown and people not being allowed to live even a semi normal life. They are totally alone and away from families and my relatives who are being kept from us are struggling.
These are my thoughts as I am walking through the store. I get back to my car and have hand sanitizers wipes and regular hand sanitizer and go over all of my groceries. It is honestly hypocritical of me because there is still such a low chance that COVID-19 is on my groceries. There is even less of a chance that it will matter. I am a healthy middle aged male and it would only be like getting the flu. Shopping is no longer fun and I hope things get back to normal fast.