Day 5 of Isolation

Good morning! It is Wednesday, March 18th and I've decided to start this blog.

This whole thing has spiraled out of control so quickly. A week ago, I was at school and the common consensus was that life would go on normally and things would be fine. Everything happened so quickly last Thursday and Friday - after-school activities were canceled, then school was canceled for the foreseeable future. Friday was my last day at school. Half of my class periods spent the whole time asking questions about what was going on. No one really knew, and no one knows still. I hugged people, even though I probably shouldn't have because it's physical contact. My school system decided that the first week off would be "spring break" (as if!) and that online instruction would be the next two weeks, and then hopefully we would be back by around the start of April.

Well, it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

So, what have people been up to? A lot of kids from my school went out with their friends on our first few days off. When I mentioned it to my mother in annoyance, she demanded to know who those parents were and said letting kids out was "unbelievably stupid" (Mom 1). I agree, I just think if I have to suffer, everyone else should suffer with me, especially if suffering is the smart thing to do in this situation. Especially because my dad had cancer and now he's missing a third of one of his lungs, so in addition to being a doctor he's in a bunch of risk categories.

I was happy on the first two days, though - the regular weekend. I baked lemon bars and molasses cookies. I tried to embroider clothes (it didn't work) and I sharpie tie-dyed (it did). I've gone running a bunch, which has helped me a little to not go crazy. My goal is to use this extra time to glow up (get skinny and flexible and good skin) so that the only thing that's sickening will be my new look. That made me cringe to write but it was kind of a smiley cringe so I'm leaving it in. I watched all of On My Block and Elite on Netflix. I have some assignments but I haven't done them yet.

So, um, that was the good. The bad is that social isolation is really starting to get to me. On Sunday I posted on my private Snap story asking if anyone wanted to facetime because I missed them all, and no one responded. At all. So much for friendship, I guess. I've texted a few people who I don't have on snap and they were nicer, though. But I feel really alone and I feel like it's really showing something that now that we don't see each other every day at school anymore, no one is really interested in maintaining contact with me.

But anyway, enough about me. That doesn't matter to history. The President (barf) actually got on board with something good yesterday - sending money to all Americans because we're out of work. We still don't have enough testing in the United States, and every day I see more Instagram posts of people hanging out with a friend with a cheeky caption like "so much for social distancing!". It's not cute! A widespread thread I see online is "who cares, it's only Boomers who will die anyway," but, like, that's my dad. We can't be stupid. If anyone is reading this and this pandemic is still going on, please don't be stupid.