At the beginning of all of this, being away from each other was just the hardest thing we all had to endure.
Course living in the digital age we had FaceTime to thank for keeping us in touch with each other and of course Netflix and Disney Plus to keep us sain
But it’s months later, we are reopening the economy, the airports, the beaches, and the hotels, etc.
Gyms are opening to full capacity, with masks. Restaurants are opening more tables., and you can remove your mask at the table. Schools are reopening, with stipulations of their own with masks.
Even with all that , Everyone has been taking advantage of this precious time by going on vacations. Long distance by car or by plane. And when that happens, the cdc has claimed (thank goodness ) we don’t have to quarantine for very long like before. However it still sucks.
Coming home from a vacation they tell you to keep away from people for up to four days and then take the 48 test and then you have to wait until that test comes back. So almost a full week.
I love my family ( mine and my husbands side, they are my family too) and during the first quarantine we stayed close to my side of the family only. We FaceTimed my husbands side.
We were so happy when we all got back together. That precious time with everyone. Their cousins, and their other grandparents.
In the last couple of months though, our time with our family gets cut short because of those vacations everyone is starting to take. One week someone leaves for a vacation and then we have to stay apart even longer due to the semi quarantine. then someone else leaves for another vacation and it starts all over again. Even we have a vacation coming up, and we’ll have to do the same when we get home. Not see everyone, even longer than before.
It’s a emotional subject. It’s not fair.
The idea we have been programmed that social distancing with the people we trust is what we are doing. However when we get close to the others we trust, they don’t trust the people we trust. Such as: we see our immediate family. My side parents and sister and my in-laws and my hubbies siblings. However we are also letting in our circle my best friends family, and close friends. Course that means we have to let our other family members know, and if they don’t want to get together for a period, that’s the thing.
It’s not a bad thing. It’s being cautious and I can understand it. It goes both ways. I interact with family/friends, that interact with their other family or friends but if I choose not to interact with those friends and family of mine directly, that’s a choice.
It’s so odd how our brains are processing this entire debacle. It’s the scariest thing to happen to our generation.
Course it isn’t the first epidemic to hit us, nor the last. Just the first one that we have learned from our past mistakes. If the People during the Spanish flu did what we are doing now, maybe a lot of lives would have been spared. No way to be certain though.
Just wish this was all over, and soon.
That’s all!!!
The TAWL Mom 