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Its been nearly half a year since this pandemic changed our lives.
How are all of you doing? Are you more/less concerned now than 6 months ago?
What is life like in your area?
How many of you have been like me & were 100% sure you contracted covid because you had a symptom?
How are all of you doing? Are you more/less concerned now than 6 months ago?
What is life like in your area?
How many of you have been like me & were 100% sure you contracted covid because you had a symptom?
March/April I was busy hauling grain. Began to get so worried going into elevators/fuel stations that I wouldn't get any items...just pay for fuel and leave. No mask, at the time they told us not to. Used gloves to open doors. Hand sanitize like crazy when I got back in the semi.
Late March I started working on equipment in the shop. Dad usually helps, but at 76, he & my mom isolated in the house & me or my kids didn't see them for 6 weeks. They left money on their porch & my brother would go grocery shopping for them. They still haven't been to a store.
I remember working on equipment, blizzard outside, and listening to the radio hearing updates of the stock market crashing. Banks were limiting withdrawals here, everyone was pulling cash out. Job reports were coming out every Thursday where we were losing 5 to 7 million per week
Commdity markets were crashing. I remember hearing when the first cases showed up in the US in Kent, Washington. It sure seemed like a dark and scary time in our country. Kids' school got canceled during spring break. Never have I felt so uncertain about the future as that time.
I cant remember the day specifically, but probably sometime in late May during spring planting, when I realized that maybe this wasn't the apocalyptic virus that we were being told it was. Serious? Absolutely! But was it worth putting our country and the wold through all this?
My wife began to question it as well. We began to become more relaxed. Kids could play with neighbors. We began eating at restaurants and not wiping our groceries down/leaving them in the garage for 3 days to sterilize. The fog began to lift and we started getting back to normal
Was this the right thing to do? Were we setting ourselves up for a disaster? As cases climbed inour area it almost seemed that we became less and less concerned....it seemed like every bit of information that was released contradicted the previous weeks information.
It seems as if we were becoming jaded to the virus. I'm still not certain what to fully believe. Kids are back in school now with as much normalcy as possible and I'm extremely thankful for that. Curious to hear how life has been changed for you all?
