Isolation shopping: Prepare for shopping (1 of 5)

Thiophene_ Guy

Utata Stays Home project: Isolation Diary asks for a day to be documented. I took images on several days to capture the actual experience of one day.

The new normal requires enhanced safety precautions. I realize this is mostly for the benefit of my fellows in public, though I now consciously think about whether to touch my face.

I went to the post office this morning enroute to a grocer. About a third of the people were not wearing masks and a few of them seemed disgusted by folks considerate enough to protect them by doing so.

This reminds me of a dream I had early in the lockdown on a day when some noisy television panjandrume had suggested we should all get ill to speed herd immunity. That night I dreamed of individuals hugging their stoic loved ones goodbye - a weeping mother hugging her son, a tearful and turbaned Sikh hugging his WASPy girlfriend or daughter, a sad son hugging a father - before the person being hugged resolutely turned strode onto a just smouldering pyre and lay face down. This woke me up in the middle of the night. Once I realized I couldn't stop their metaphorical self immolation but could do something about contributing to it I found a way back to sleep.

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