How to Make Your Home an Essential Worker This Winter
As we face another COVID-19 lockdown, our sanity will depend on our cribs’ sanctity
2020 is grinding to a halt and as the great Game of Thrones tagline goes: Winter is coming. In tow, instead of dragons and throne-obsessed Europeans, is a 10-month-old pandemic with no foreseeable end. This means most Americans more than likely will return to the lockdown that kept them quarantined throughout late Winter/Spring 2020. Nationwide anxiety has spiked; I can empathize. March to May was suffocating. Days blended together, blurring the distinction between a Wednesday and a Saturday. The rare ventures outside were mainly for weird jogs throughout my desolate neighborhood or Trader Joe’s trips (never have I been happier to buy turmeric and wine). No one desires a repeat of those days, but what we mustn’t do is allow a return to the spiraling and depression caused by cabin fever and isolation. That defense should start and then live at home.
Not everyone can escape to virus-absent beaches on the equator or acres of ranch land for Instagram-worthy social distancing. Most Americans will once again depend on their residence to be an office, movie theater, gym, spa, synagogue, and dance floor — all at once. Until these COVID numbers drop, it’s imperative that our living quarters be havens…
