Quarantine, One Year In

Locked Down

Today is day 50 of coronavirus stay-at-home for me. It’s the tail end of the seventh week. To be honest things aren’t that bad for us. My wife continues to work her retail job four days a week, I’ve been able to keep my job and work from home and our daughter is ten days away from wrapping up 4th grade from home. Her school has been amazing at this and she is a good student.

But I worry about her being stuck inside all the time. She’s spending way too much time on screens but it’s her only way to communicate with her friends and to escape into a broader world than our home and immediate neighborhood. She sometimes gets despondent at night. I worry for her. I worry for all of us.

But I’m also optimistic, as always. We have our health, our jobs, our livelihoods, our home, transportation if we need it, and a small savings. We’ll be okay. Many won’t.

My hope is we collectively come out of this mess with a desire for change unlike any other time in our history. The systems we’ve living in / under are broken and unsustainable. Our economic systems benefit only those at the top. Most business models are broken. Look at how many businesses have failed already. Imagine how many more will fail in the coming years.

We have to find a better way. I believe we will. I’m going to explore some of that here as an experiment and then will publish anything useful to a wider audience on other sites and outlets. It’s time to change the game.