mousme | In Pandemic News (Reply)

I'm sure you're all sick of reading my complaining about work, so I figured I may as well give a little nod to the pandemic that, yes, is still ongoing.

Part of me feels as though I should have been documenting "my" pandemic more diligently this whole time, but since I haven't, the point is kind of moot. My personal experience barely seems worth noting, anyway. I kept working, I kept going to work, I got a temporary promotion, the only thing that changed was the frequency with which I went to the grocery store and I basically stopped visiting with my parents. Otherwise, I lived under a rock before, and I live under a rock now.

Ottawa is going back into the "red zone" tomorrow. For those playing along at home, my province has instituted five colour-coded zones. The first is green ("prevent"), the second is yellow ("protect"), the third is orange ("restrict"), the fourth red ("control"), and the fifth is grey ("lockdown"). The criteria for red are described thusly:

Limit close contact to your household (the people you live with) and stay at least 2 metres apart from everyone else.

Do not visit any other household or allow visitors in your home. If you live alone, you can have close contact with only one other household.

Only go out for essential reasons, such as:

work

school

groceries

pharmacy

health care

helping vulnerable people

exercise and physical activity

Work remotely, where possible.

Anyway, that's where we are. Canada's vaccination rollout is a shit show, and somewhere in that shit show I may possibly be getting my first jab sometime in the next month. I am an essential worker, I am considered "operational" and I can't work from home, but I'm not a front-line worker by any stretch. So it could be as early as April, but it could be as late as July, and it feels like there's nothing solid to hold onto these days. Like most people, I don't do well with uncertainty. If someone told me that my firm vaccination date was July 31st I wouldn't like it, but at least I'd know, and I'd be able to plan around it.

Oh well. It is what it is.

I should go to bed. I have another terrible plan to get up early and do things tomorrow morning (not the recycling, but actual work stuff), and I don't really want to play the I-told-you-so game again. I guess we'll find out if I win this round tomorrow evening. :P