I'm Over it.

Well its been a minute. What is there to say. We did all the things. We quarantined. We washed our groceries. We avoided our families and friends. We found a new normal. Around the house we got a lot done. Thankful to have a paycheck. It has been sad to see so few students pop in and check in as well as so many seniors just kind of disappear. I keep building lessons, holding office hours, checking teams and trying to engage students but they are just simply gone. A lot of people are aching to go back to normalcy. It will never be normal again. We've been able to see family and friends at a distance. Its odd. So few new cases and now they are opening things back up. All the countries and states that have are seeing spikes again. No vaccine in site. Even if we get one it might be a while off and it might not work on all mutations. Can't get a diagnostic test unless you have it. 3/14 Antibody tests are significant and that only tell you if you likely had it not if you're immune. People are re-testing positive if they already had it including a bunch of sailors on a navy boat. So we don't/won't know if we had it, or if we have had it if it offers any protection. Because of the procedures put in place we didn't get a hospital surge or crazy death spike so now people are venturing back out. It will happen eventually. Our political situation isn't good. If a vaccine is developed a bunch of people won't take it. Those who do will have to decide if they trust who's putting it out. It is crazy to think the whole world is in some sort of conspiracy. It just isn't realistic. So it real, we're handing it, but there is a list of things that we don't do anymore. We don't eat out. We don't order in. We don't go to concerts or gatherings. We don't hug our mommies. We don't go to school. We don't send our kids to school. We do go to parks. We do cook at home. We do finish projects around the house. We do garden a lot more. We sleep a lot more. We feel pretty good. We are losing weight. I just don't really know how to make sense of it all anymore. We are so bored. Our yard and garden was our eden and now it is a bit of a prison. Even writing about it seems stupid. I'm so sick of these phrases: Uncertain times. Troubling Times. Unprecedented times. The election is in so much trouble and so important. I just can't watch the news anymore. As with climate change, scientific literacy seems to be the problem. People don't understand anything, can't read graphs, let their beliefs stand in place for numbers, and when it doesn't line up it must be a conspiracy. So if some of us are going to follow the rules and do what we are supposed to and the other half of the country is gonna cram into red robin and hobby lobby and reinfect us all over again than what is the point? Over it.