{"id":100,"date":"2021-04-04T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2021\/04\/04\/2021-not-the-return-to-normal\/"},"modified":"2025-01-05T20:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-05T20:36:36","slug":"2021-not-the-return-to-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2021\/04\/04\/2021-not-the-return-to-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 &#8211; not the return to normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working part-time, consistently, for 2-3 clients at any given time, and it&#8217;s been fantastic. But all of the jobs are related to the pandemic crisis on some way &#8211; I would not had them had this crisis not happened &#8211; and that&#8217;s beyond surreal and sad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still home, venturing out only to walk my doggy. I don&#8217;t even pick up groceries or fetch take-out &#8211; I&#8217;m too frightened of the new coronavirus variants, so Stefan has to do it all now (he&#8217;s fully vaccinated). I&#8217;m supposedly eligible as of May 1 now, but you have to get a small miracle to get an appointment &#8211; my 80+ neighbor was eligible for eight weeks before she <i>finally<\/i>&nbsp;was able to get hers. I still think I may not be vaccinated until the Fall.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As those of you who are getting the vaccine excitedly post about your plans for the summer, please remember that a lot of us still have to stay home, we have no access to a vaccine &#8211; and that millions around the world have no access at all and won&#8217;t this year at all. What I&#8217;m saying is&#8230; maybe lay off the &#8220;Look where I am!!!&#8221; vacation photos for 2021. And if you can, find someone over 65 that hasn&#8217;t gotten the vaccine yet, and help them sign up to get it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>People have been posting since April of LAST year, &#8220;What the first thing you&#8217;re going to do when this is over?!?&#8221; As though there is going to be this singular moment when it&#8217;s safe to &#8220;return to normal.&#8221; I&#8217;ve avoided doing that because it&#8217;s unrealistic and I don&#8217;t want to think about all the things I&#8217;m desperately needing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When I feel safe enough to get on mass transit again &#8211; and it will be with a mask and maybe even a face shield &#8211; I&#8217;ll know we&#8217;ve turned a corner. And where will I go when that happens?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>To get my hair cut and colored (though Stefan has been doing a great job).&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>To a museum.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><i>Maybe<\/i> to the movies.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also be willing to go camping (and use a public restroom) and to go into the grocery to shop. And all of that will be enough to make me extraordinarily happy.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What I won&#8217;t be doing until I think it&#8217;s safe (and that means not in 2021):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Going to an indoor performance.<\/li>\n<li>Going into a crowd of any kind, even outdoors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m working part-time, consistently, for 2-3 clients at any given time, and it&#8217;s been fantastic. 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