Everyday I work there is some new protocol. Despite mass cancelations they’re encouraging us to use as much labour as it takes to clean properly which is great, but man how would a small business handle that ? You don’t typically want to increase labour when revenue drops. Today they took tables out of the restaurant and blocked some off so everybody was farther apart, felt freaky as hell. Anyways, my new life goal is to get to a point where I’m so comfortable that I don’t understand how events like this affect my life. So many people either getting laid off or having their hours cut drastically, I’m lucky to be where I am honestly.
The downside of living in such a materialistically skewed society without proper distribution of wealtb is that we seem to be in an odd catch-22 where it's both our moral duty to stay home, for regard to the physical well being of our neighbors, but also go out and be cogs in the economic engine, for the financial well being of our neighbors. This whole virus is shining a bright light on a massive gaping hole in the fabric of our society.So many people either getting laid off or having their hours cut drastically, I’m lucky to be where I am honestly.
These are my Weiman friends. They've been sitting there patiently, unmoving and unloved, for the past two weeks as all their compatriots fly off the shelves in service of greater disinfection. I visit them whenever I buy groceries. Note: here in Ground Zero I have never not been able to buy groceries. There's some stuff I haven't been able to get: there have been no dry beans in weeks but canned beans are readily available. Way at the end there are whole organic chickens. We ate one. It was delicious. I would say that Ground Zero is wrapping their heads around "we've been told we're going to be sick for a while so we're stocking up" having moved through "BUY ALL THE CHARMIN" two weeks ago. 'cuz here's the thing: “Once they have more toilet paper, people aren’t going to poo more.”
