I’m lucky enough to work from home as it is, so should we all be told to shelter in place, or the federally mandated order comes down that I need to be quarantined for two weeks or more, well, that’s fine. It’ll just be business as usual, with the added plus of a CDC seal of approval.
But there’s a flip side to this. With social distancing and self-quarantining suddenly becoming the hippest new national pastime, there has been a disconcerting change in my own little world.
Like everyone, I’m obligated to step outside now and again to go to the store, the laundromat, the bank, in short to take care of all those banalities of daily life.
Now, in general, the disabled find themselves ostracized in social settings of any kind. We tend to make normal people uncomfortable, and as a result they keep their distance. That’s the standard consensus anyway, and no doubt an accurate one for most in the disabled community. I’m blind, but my own experience has been different, at least until now. Now I’m starting to understand what other disabled people encountered every day in the pre-COVID-19 world.
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My newfound isolation in grocery stores is more problematic. Time was, I’d step into a store and find myself barraged with people offering help. Now with the threat of disease and death lingering in the air, no one will even walk down the same aisle I’m in. I may not be helping matters, I suppose, given that in order to get my bearings in places like supermarkets, I need to, yes, touch things in my search for the flour, cereal or canned nuts.
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