Social Distancing for Beginners
A Guide to Pandemics, Plagues, and the Zombie Apocalypse
I’ll be honest and just say, for the record, that this would have been so much easier when I thought I was an introvert. Recent evidence, however, has so thoroughly refuted my previous assumption that I can no longer own that label. Even though I know I’m not an introvert (I’m owning “ambivert” until further notice), the idea of forced social isolation — distancing is the word that’s being volleyed around — is daunting.
I’m a single mother. More, I’m a full-time, working single mother. Luckily for me, I work from home. Unluckily for me, I have to manage that work while taking care of and entertaining extremely active children. My usual child wrangling-while-working technique of taking them to an indoor play area while I work on the sidelines won’t exactly fly when social distancing is the theme.
So I, like many of you, will be stuck at home. While I love my home, the thought of staying there for a solid week brings to mind instant cabin fever. But when we’re dealing with pandemics…
