Tuesday, December 01, 2020

What are the things you've learned during the pandemic?

I've had this thought now and again....about what has this time basically pretty much quarantined taught me? I have to say as much as I hate the pandemic and the lives which are lost, jobs and businesses which have suffered, the hell basically health care workers and teachers and people in education and just so many people are experiencing, I have to say and acknowledge that there is some good to all of this. There has to be some sort of lesson to all of this. We have been forced to slow down and be with our immediate family much more. We have been forced to work differently, to learn differently. I have to say I wonder if after this is all over (which seems to be less than a year away now heading into 9 months of the pandemic), how will I be changed? Will I even want to go out any more? I certainly miss people...family and friends and going out to dinner or lunch and seeing my mom without worrying about killing her. I miss my exercise classes in-person. I miss the kids just getting on the bus without worrying that one of the kids might catch Covid. I definitely miss the before the pandemic. I have so many thoughts about the pepole who lived through the 1918 pandemic. I wonder what their thoughts were. I read this rather chilling article which could have been describing the current pandemic. People were arguing about wearing masks. Others stayed home. It was so eerie how the two pandemics were actually matching up even though the pandemics were over 100 years apart when they took place. It makes me wonder when they say history repeats itself if people actually learn from their mistakes? I must say that I feel like I am a person who does learn from my mistakes and I would never repeat this or that mistake. I'm human, though, so maybe I'm wrong.

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