(As in where my mind goes during a Pandemic and Quarantine)
How will we collectively and individually remember these days? What will this experience etch upon each of us?
I’ve never been so relieved to not own a small business. This must be the most challenging situation small business owners have ever imagined, must less, faced.
In this time of mandatory physical distancing, has gardening become the new intimate contact? There’s a certain satisfaction to be had from getting your heart rate up and getting a little dirty and my backyard has never looked better.
Is a pandemic a valid reason for not observing street cleaning parking regulations in Albany? I believe street parking meters fees have been suspended, but am I jerk for thinking it isn’t too much for my neighbors to move their cars for three hours on a weekday when they’re obviously home?
Can you appreciate how fortunate we are that this illness took aim at our country in spring? How much more desperate would we each be feeling if it were the onset of winter instead of the prelude to a season of growth and natural beauty?
What do you miss the most from “normal” life? What will you do when we are eventually released to resume regular programming?
Do you ever imagine that maybe these times might cause our contemporary society to reset? That we might change what we value most in our world?
Is it really ok that CEOs make millions of $ a year, while nurses, store clerks and delivery drivers earn so much less? When you consider the contributions they’re each making at this time, how do you justify the incredibly broad income gap between the top earners and the rest of the population?
What about you? What have you been thinking?
