Life's a Stitch

Our friends and family meme.. You know it's a pandemic when:

– your meditation app tells you to take a series of deep breaths and you are afraid to.

– the meditation app tells you to select what you’re feeling and admonishes you for picking too many emotions. 

– you discuss with your partner how many sheets of toilet paper you use at one sitting. 

– you are sooo excited to receive your bidet toilet seat. Who needs toilet paper?

– you receive sweet messages from two former German students, just checking in to see how you're doing.

–  the date for grocery store click and collect is two weeks out.

– you calculate it will take 50 laps around the house to get to 10,000 steps. 

– C suggests we have a couple of nights away from home. In the camper. In the driveway. 

– you subscribe to an automated text messaging service so you are guaranteed to receive a “message of hope” each day. 

– you’re excited to find two protective masks in the workshop.

– you accidentally touch your mouth then spray it with hand sanitizer. 

– you look outside and see several larger than the allowed rv’s that you’ve never noticed before. Figured out they belong to snowbirds who have returned early but can’t get their rv’s into storage because they're required by law to be in quarantine. 

– hopscotch has grown fromm eight squares to 48.

– your kid is so bouncy he bounces into your windshield and cracks it four ways. 

– at work they tell you to limit all non-essential meetings and to use Skype for business. Then tell you to limit non-essential use of Skype for business because it keeps crashing. 

– all the ichiban is sold out except for the miso flavour. 

– Starbucks is closed at two pm on a Wednesday

– there’s no such thing as rush hour anymore. 

– as a nurse they tell you you might have to go back to the floors when you haven’t worked there in ten years  

– you’re granted access to the hospital only after passing screening tests by an entourage in damn near hazmat suits, and the proceed to walk around with the rest of the public wearing no protection at all. 

– the lady at the liquor store says it’s been like Christmas and the average ring out today was over $400.

– your speech delayed kid can pronounce hand sanitizer but not potato. 

– when gas is 0.66 a litre ($1.78 US per gallon).

And the heartbreaking one:

You know it’s a pandemic when you let a man come into the hospital for open heart surgery, but turn his wife away at the door. Or when you tell parents that they cannot both be with their dying child at the same time.

How did we get to this?

Pandemic March 18th:

Pandemic April 3rd:

The timing for Easter’s message of hope and renewal is much needed.