My self-isolation (aka slightly modified introvert lifestyle) continues.
Today I had a couple pro-happiness COVID activities.
For one, I have started leading two weekly meditation sessions on Zoom. Fridays are for experienced meditators (no instruction) and Saturdays are for beginners. We started last week as a once off, and this week it became a regular weekly thing.
Right now it is only for my neighborhood, but I'm thinking of opening it up a bit more broadly. We'll see how that goes. I like the idea of keeping it local so that once we aren't self-isolating anymore it will be easy to keep meeting in person if people want to.
Second, I put on one of my 3 remaining masks from wildfires where I used to live a couple years back and drove over to my mother's house to take her for a walk in her neighborhood.
Her entire household is pretty vulnerable to illness, as between them they have diabetes, lupus, heart problems, etc. So I've been trying to get them to be more responsive to threats from COVID19 in many ways. For the most part my mother stays in her bedroom, wearing a mask whenever she goes to the kitchen or bathroom.
Thankfully as of this week everyone in that house is either retired or being educated from home, so it seems they will be able to get exposure levels down to where they can all use the house freely. I hope so at least.
My sister who lives there got such a bad cold last week that her husband took her to the hospital, but the test came back negative for COVID19. I made the case that if she got even a cold the household clearly isn't doing enough to protect itself, since it was only luck of the draw that it was a different virus she picked up.
I think everyone in my family is approaching the level of caution I've been urging the last month.
My new commitment is to wearing my mask whenever I go shopping, which is pretty much all I go anywhere other than walking the dog these days. I don't wear it for walking the dog, but my neighborhood is sparsely populated, so it's easy to stay 6+ feet from other strollers.
Have you been self-isolating?
Are either of your parents alive? If so, have you been urging them to self-isolate or make other lifestyle changes to protect themselves?
