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What Would You Do If You Got Sick?

For the past week to ten days, I've read and listened to everyone complain about their boredom, their fears, and their plans on coping with solitude. It started with bucket list-type goals, plans for homeschooling, and taking up hobbies to bide one's time. People since have joked about their sanity levels, made funny memes and videos, embraced the serenity of nature without all the traffic, and procrastinate about their alleged plans. People have taken to reading, cooking, binge-watching television, working out, and many, just drinking. The range of activities is vast and through social media, the shares have created a connection that has broken through this distancing. Some, however, have ignored the warnings, while others have taken it to extremes. As of yet, we know little, if anything, about when this will all be over. We just know it's here and we are all, in our personal estimation, taking the needed steps. Most I know, are also sharing information about what to do to avoid contracting the virus that has changed our lives. We have spent so much time examining, critiquing, planning, and sharing ways to avoid the virus, we've forgotten the most important part of this all: What the hell do we do if we get it?

Avoid contact with those you might infect!

Sounds like a plan, if you live alone, are fully stocked with supplies and food for two weeks, have someone with medical expertise to check in on you, and a doctor to evaluate you for clearance of the disease. In reality, most of us, do not have a single plan in place, should we actually fall ill. Do you?

Normally, I'd make an attempt to wax poetic about how unprepared everyone else is, but I find myself in such an odd situation, that I wonder if I'm not worse off being alone. I am sure I do not wish to infect another, but when the ones closest to you, in proximity, are selfish, unaware, and in many ways, unable to care for their own "healthy" selves, what use would they be to me should I fall ill? I do not have an answer for myself, so how could I add opinion to another's life? I do know, the reality of this and the reality that my nature is to help others makes me fully aware I am more likely to contract this than not. My biggest fear to date is passing it on. Therein lies the problem. I, like so many, have thought about every angle there is to prevent it, but have given very little to the grim reality that I may very well get it. If so, who could I count on without compromising their health?

Do you have a plan in place?

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