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bars are already opening up north ahead of the state stay at home order that& #39;s still in place til May 26. like it or not, people are going back to "normal" and in such numbers that there& #39;s nothing Gov Evers can do. Shelter in place is over.
at my apartment complex tonight there are no less than three large, loud parties with 20+ people crowding into small apartments. and my neighborhood is majority black and Hispanic so it& #39;s not the white supremacist snake flag crowd. the people are done. It& #39;s over.
I& #39;m a rule-follower and I& #39;ll follow the guidelines but once the stay-at-home is lifted I& #39;ll prob just go back to living how I did before. I& #39;ll have dinner with my family and I& #39;ll prob go up to the lake house in June. As long as I& #39;m allowed, I& #39;m going to live my life.
I don& #39;t mean this to be a hot take or whatever but a lot of this stay-at-home/work-from-home stuff comes with privilege. My mom and dad and brothers and sisters all work in essential jobs even with the stay-at-home. We& #39;ve been in the shit this whole time.
that& #39;s nice if you have an accomodating office job that lets you work from home for months and months but most working class people have been working through this (or need to get back bc UE/UBI isn& #39;t coming) regardless of what the virus is doing
again I don& #39;t mean that in a hot take way but regular folks have been making your food and running stores and factories this whole time. Not to mention the medical workers in the trenches. my mom is an RN at a clinic here in Madison and she& #39;s told me that things ought to open up
so it& #39;s weird. I don& #39;t work, I& #39;m on disability, but I& #39;ve run errands with my mom twice a week most weeks and I& #39;ve been to the store and pharmacy nearly every week (can& #39;t pay for Instacart with foodshare ebt so I have to go in), I& #39;ve been in it. My whole family never had a break.
So my position is I& #39;ll stay hunkered down til the order is lifted and I& #39;ll follow the guidelines but I& #39;m going to live my life as close to normal as I can. If we& #39;re allowed to go we& #39;ll go to the Door in June, if my sisters want to have dinner we will. Whatever happens happens.
and no small part of these feelings are the self-destructive and suicidal thoughts that have been in my ear more and more as this goes on. I understand public safety but I& #39;m more scared of being alone with myself than I am of the virus when I feel like I do right now.
apologies for the rambling but I saw the story about the bars opening early and I was just thinking, maybe as a society we& #39;re too dumb/stubborn to do this. maybe all we can do is ride it out. idk
