Last week I was sent a rather long survey from Cedar Point to fill out about COVID-19 and amusement parks. One of the questions was how has COVID-19 negatively impacted our lives. I was surprised by my answer.
My physical therapy sessions went to tele-health. My daughter's new passion for ice skating was halted. The company my husband works for laid off a bunch of workers, so he has to pick up their work while maintaining his. He has not gotten paid more and is doing twice the work. I'm an essential worker and everyone at work is getting hazard pay except those of us who are salary and we are working double-time as well. Online schooling has been a struggle. My daughter is finishing middle school and will not get a proper send-off to high school. She didn't get one for elementary school either. I've gained a bunch of weight, even though I'm more active, due to increased stress. Shopping has been challenging. A lot of essentials are not in stock. I also can't wear a mask because of my asthma, so I have to send my husband. Amazon orders have been a lot slower getting here.
The survey also asked how the virus has had a positive impact on our household.
Places are cleaner. People seem to be coming together (at least those around me). I've been able to work from home a lot, in the comfort of lounge clothes, which helps me be more productive while being able to help my daughter with her schooling. I've had more time to do things I had on my list to do, such as new drawings, cleaning parts of the house, remodeling a room, etc. My daughter and I have learned new technology skills. She has learned a lot of new musical dialogues. We have saved a lot of money on gas. Watching TV has been better since some movies have been released at home and Disney+ has released a lot of new movies and shows.
Shifting gears now...Buster hurt himself last week and was limping pretty badly. I had to take him to the vet as a drop-off. They had some social distancing guidelines at Banfield, which is pictured above. All of the staff was wearing masks and there were markers on the floor about social distancing. There were no shoppers in PetSmart when I went to drop him off or pick him up.
So much has changed with Covid-19 since my last post about it. NC enters Phase 2 of opening tomorrow. There are new guidelines leaked by the CDC about school openings next year...they might as well call it prison. I feel horrible for kids next year, especially my daughter who will be starting High School. America is still rebelling. The President of the US wants things to get back to normal and refuses to listen to any guidelines posted by WHO and CDC.
So what's up with my title of this post? I was totally crushed today. I decided I wanted to pay it forward to my physical therapist office. I was going to buy the staff lunch from Jason's Deli. I called and talked to their office manager, who then asked me who my therapist was and that he would check with him to see how he felt about it. My therapist then called me and told me he wouldn't allow me to do that. He said it was Catholic guilt (and company policy) and that we would come up with an alternative next week. I could barely talk when he told me that. My feelings were hurt. I have been going there since November, weekly, sometimes biweekly, and I see how hard they work. I felt it was the least I could do, and something I wanted to do. I guess I will wait and see what alternatives he proposes next week. Sometimes I just can't win, no matter what I do.
Since I haven't posted the statistics from the Coronavirus in a while, I thought I'd post them today. This is data from Johns Hopkins University of Medicine.
Worldwide: 5,047,377 cases; 329,816 deaths
US: 1,562,714 cases; 93,863 deaths
NY: 356,485 cases; 28,636 deaths (61,886 recovered)
NC: 20,512 cases; 728 deaths (11,637 recovered)- Mecklenburg County: 2,780 cases
SC: 9,175 cases; 407 deaths (5,451 recovered)
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