#7 Unbridled Thoughts during the 2020 Pandemic

So what does one do all day (if, like me, you are lucky enough to be retired ) when everything is closed and you are told to stay home.  Get out of bed, make the bed, take a shower, make the coffee and drink a cup as you sit in your recliner and read the daily paper as you wonder if the person who delivered your paper is infected with the coronavirus.  Therefore you try not to touch your face until after you’ve finished the paper and washed your hands. You also have to remember if you’ve touched anything else while you were reading the paper but before you washed your hands!! Then you have to clean all those things too and the surfaces they might have touched.  

Later in the day when you get the mail out of the mailbox or when a package is delivered to your front door, you have to go through this elaborate sanitizing ritual 

all over again ad nauseam.  By this time your hands are chapped or reddened and raw and you have the added fear that another type of germ might make its way under your skin thus causing another type of infection. The last thing you want to do is to cause yourself a problem bring that might require medical care outside of your home. You certainly do not want to step foot into a medical facility.  Or a dental office for that matter. Wash your teeth like you’ve never washed them before. Use your water 💦 pic, the dental floss and the electric toothbrush and finish it off with a slug of heavy duty mouth wash. 

Watch a little news but not too much or you might cause yourself a nervous breakdown. And be sure not to watch the news too late in the day or your daytime nightmare will become a night time nightmare as well. 

Have a cocktail but don’t drink too much because you don’t want to develop diabetes or a rapid heartbeat or any other thing that necessitates a visit to the doctor-that is if you can find a doctor who wants to see you right now. 

Concoct some soups or make up some recipes with the ingredients you can find in your pantry.  Who the hell wants to suit and mask and glove up ( if you can find any of these supplies anywhere ) to go to the supermarket?  

Watch all those shows you’ve been meaning to watch. Clean out those drawers that are overflowing.  

Take a walk through an old cemetery that might have opened somewhere around 1841. It is not as scary to see people who died a long time ago. If you see too many recent gravestones it touches too close to home and makes you feel more vulnerable.  If you walk in the cemetery on a regular basis, you get to know the people buried there and they somehow become more like friends.  

When you get back home again you feel like you’ve been somewhere and have done something and it doesn’t feel so boring to sit back down in your recliner and write in your Blog.