Getting back to normal

#1

My friend said that she can’t wait until things get back to normal.

At the moment her kids and husband are home all day and she has to make food for them. There have been shortages of flour, cereals, pasta and rice. So she has been feeding them basically, meat and vegetables, with some eggs. Even alcohol has been limited and she was a heavy wine drinker (with “the girls”), so that has been curtailed as well, much to her chagrin.

But her immune mediated skin and joint diseases have eased she notes and wonders why?

They miss their take-out. The older teenager in particular whines that he is starving without access to fast food junk food.

The family walk the family dog every morning. The teenage son even gets up with the rest of the family just after dawn. It’s too boring to stay in bed. They get early morning sunshine and exercise. The dog is becoming well trained and no longer barks nor howls upsetting the neighbours.

Their daughter has asked to learn how to knit and sew and she does so as she listens to her online university lectures. Even hubby is trying to cook, apparently watching TV was just full of bad news.

So my friend said, it was so much easier to bung together some mac and cheese, or a fried rice with a flavouring sachet packet, or a bowl of (wholegrain) cereal and lo-fat milk. Simple things, she wants the simple things in life. They can’t wait to get back to normal.

I mentioned that I thought the virus caused loss of smell, not loss of understanding.

According to our state government who have taken control from the feds it will be another 6 months of strict social conditions and intense population and disease monitoring.

(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #2

Oh @FrankoBear this breaks my heart! What a sad situation - but there is hope in there, I think… if they forget the old ‘normal’ and stick with the new!

I hope your friend and her family continue with their level of activity and the way they are eating, learning new things and feeling better for long enough to understand the benefits of everything they are accidentally doing that are already so beneficial.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #3

This sounds realistic and scary to me, here we are getting extensions one month at a time. I think if it were announced here that people should plan on Sheltering in Place for the next six months it would cause a panic. But maybe getting through one month at a time will make it easier on the monkey brain. “We’re going out again just not this month!” :joy::joy::cowboy_hat_face:

#4

I’m loving the new normal. I live on a busy street and I’m enjoying waking up early without lenient parents polluting the air by driving their undisciplined kids to and from school throughout the day.

It’s a breath of fresh air.

(charlie3) #5

I have to agree. Ground hog day? Every day the same, so quiet. There’s more. I don’t go to restaurants, don’t drink, indifferent to professional sports. How about, instead of sitting down with beer and chips too watch the game, consider taking a walk instead. I live too close to bars and restaurants that didn’t exist when I moved in. Would be fine with me if they didn’t reopen. They sell unhealthy things to unhealthy people and now we’re paying for it. Everybody complains health care costs too many billions. Now it’s too many trillions. Enough is enough.

#6

I can’t walk in my fav places because they are closed. My SO can’t go to work through the forest because it’s closed, he need to take the longer, uglier route.
(I live in Hungary but many countries handle this situation somewhat similarly. I don’t know how it is done with parks elsewhere though. Not parks in a city, they are needed, it’s a wildlife park between two villages and very close to my house as I live between that two villages, far from each.)
And it’s so not good for the economy and many people… Restaurants and even bars have their role and as people want them and it’s not inherently evil, it would be a bad thing to close them permanently.
But if we talk about banning tobacco… :smiley: Sadly, that’s not realistic either but that harms so many people, quite clearly. It’s a damn stupid thing IMO. No one gets harmed if I eat a steak in a restaurant even if I drink some wine with it.

(charlie3) #7

There was a street demonstration here in Michigan. Estimates 100,000 people turned out. There are YT videos. Ban medical insurance for covid. People might be more careful. They can’t ban people from making a living for long.

#8

I miss seeing my parents. I miss seeing my students. I would much rather go to work than jump through the hoops we have to now. My kids miss the cousin sleepovers at my parents house. I miss going out with friends and drinking a few beers and listening to live music. I miss watching my kids play sports. The lack of face to face social interaction with the outside world is what I miss the most. I’ve enjoyed spending time with family, but this is overkill. I know it’s what is needed but that doesn’t make it anymore fun.

Summer vacations are in jeapordy. Fall sports are in jeapordy. Schools will be lucky to even start back in the fall.

#9

It clearly can’t continue for long, people won’t stand this. Many European countries relax their ways already. Some factories opened here too but other things just got stricter… I agree with the actions that were made and I am aware it could be worse but it’s a huge burden on us and it can’t continue as long as the virus is here, it’s against human nature and the economy already suffered a big blow… We can handle this cautious world for a while and it’s important getting ready for worse times in the healthcare but it will be way too long soon…