We all have Covid-19 #mycoviddiary

No I don't have it yet. No cough, no fever, just the expected occasional sneeze as spring is coming on. But Washington has closed all the restaurants and bars and I realize today that we all have Covid-19 as the community that is the world is connected, each person to every other person in ways we now are just starting to understand.

A couple of ER doctors have been tweeting their lung ultrasounds daily as they go through coronavirus infections. I have been watching eagerly, hoping they will get better soon which will reassure me (for no good reason, but hey.) They use the hashtag #mycoviddiary. I'm thinking I will blog-journal the top thoughts and ideas that come to mind in the next weeks. Why not? I'll have time, until I won't have time anymore. Then I can journal that, too.

Thoughts today:

1. We should forgive ourselves and everybody else for being stupid about this. Nobody has ever done this before. Only a few of us are global pandemic experts. Hoarding toilet paper, buying the wrong type of food for your two week supply, thinking your allergies are coronavirus, not knowing when to stop going to the gym...all of these things are us being human. We're not going to know except in hindsight which of our ideas was genius. Canned sardines? Mac and cheese? Frozen vegetables?

2. Many of the things that will be really painful about this are going to surprise us.

3. It's important to wear supportive shoes when dancing around the house for exercise. Plantar fasciitis is real and has nothing to do with heel spurs and everything to do with jumping up and down to boppy music in bare feet trying to get your heartrate up.

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