All we have heard lately is stay home. Shelter in place. Lockdown. And yet thousands upon thousands of people still don’t get it.
Simply put it means stay home. If you are not considered essential need, stay home. If you do not have to go somewhere for work or to get essential need items, stay home.
I’m struggling with people who aren’t getting it. I don’t understand how it’s so hard to consider others and stay home to protect them.
I don’t understand how people don’t see how privileged they are to know they should stay home and to go outside anyways. To think “oh I could never spread that, my friends don’t have that.” To not fear getting sick. To not fear giving a very serious sickness to others.
And if you still cannot wrap your head around that, understand that the longer you decide to ignore these rules, the longer we are in this situation.
Nobody wants to stay home. We all miss really important people to us. But we are lucky. A lot of us really really lucky.
I don’t mean to belittle anyone’s hardships. This is hard. Everyone is giving up something. People are shutting down businesses. They’re away from family. They are dealing with mental and physical health concerns. But having perspective right now is everything.
There is so much we cannot control. And it’s horrible and it’s hard and it’s scary. But perspective and finding any silver lining we can is how we make it through. Cry. Scream. Feel hopeless. Then get back up and survive.
Extreme conditions bring out true character. This is the time that you either give up, focus on yourself, or you dig deep and you thrive.
Stay home. Stay home for you. Stay home for me. Stay home for the doctors and nurses who cannot. Stay home because people in grocery stores are getting yelled at for minimum wage just to keep us fed. Stay home so that the small businesses can reopen again. Stay home so that we can get our lives back.
Just fucking stay home.