March 19/20—[Like a few hundred million people, I’m writing blog posts on My Corona!]
I was at the Shopper’s Drugmart yesterday and the
clerk there—a chipper, always making jokes, friendly nearly-senior gal said,
when I asked her how she was doing, that she just kept focused on the present
and looked at the “small picture”; she didn’t want to think about the future,
just get through each work day. I wanted to tell her that I was the opposite,
that I always seem to want to look at the ‘big picture’ and that we balanced
each other out, but instead I said something like, “well, that’s all you can
do,” and for her to stay healthy.
I noted that she wasn’t wearing a mask and it
seems to me that the service industry folk who
are on the front lines, along with healthcare workers and first responders,
should get dibs on masks and gloves and hand sanitizers. People in grocery
stores, shops, pharmacies, need their employers to do all they can to
protect them. Such workers should be declared “essential personnel” along
with doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and so on, and should be protected in
law, receiving the necessary protective gear and benefits . Some
states in the US have recently done this. (For me, I’ll practice “social
distancing”—Ah! The new words we all must learn—and keep to myself as much as
possible, as well as using isoprophynal alcohol in lieu of hand sanitizers.
It’s so little to help those who do so much.)
Cheers, Jake
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