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Letter From The Edge
How blogs can give us insight into people’s minds during this difficult time
When we were all ordered to stay at home, my Auntie Sophia happened to be visiting. So for the last few days we’ve been “sheltering in place” and rationing our toilet paper. Thankfully I had the foresight to stock up on toilet paper just before all those idiots out there cleared the shelves of the stuff, so we have 2,880 rolls to see us through the next couple of weeks. Even so, you can’t be too careful so I’ve also embarked on a project to strip all the wallpaper. We can use it when the toilet paper runs out.
Auntie Sophia is a funny old bird. She keeps asking why the entire world has shut down when the obvious thing to do was simply take steps to protect the people the virus actually kills: the very old and the very sick. She doesn’t understand, if everyone else is either asymptomatic or gets very mild symptoms, why everyone’s lives are being treated as though they were high-risk. Just goes to show how batty you get when you’re an Auntie, I suppose. I’ve told her the government knows what it’s doing. I have to bite my tongue to stop myself from telling her that this is no time to be asking questions!
Unfortunately she’s old and she used to be an epidemiologist for thirty years. After that, she worked for one of those charities that tries to help people in poor countries by…
