This March is not like any other one. No basketball. No going outside without feeling the stares of others that are doing the same as you. Did I mention no basketball?
To make matters even worse, for some it may even mean no paycheck. No month's rent. No groceries. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. If you've got money in the stock market, your profile's value has only gone down. Gas prices are down (yes for the moment, AHH! for the theme of what I'm writing about), schools have closed, restaurants have converted to take-out only. It seems as if our typical lives have suddenly come to a halt.
The difference between what's going on now and anything that most of my friends and colleagues have been through is that something of this magnitude has never happened until now. I mean, the 2008 crisis was bad, but we weren't the ones being directly affected by it. Instead of our parents, we're the ones to suffer the burn. That shit is wild.
A positive to take from this? Pollution is down! BBC's been giving me pretty good charts and what not to keep up with in order to be aware of the latest news that revolves around the coronavirus. My favorite news source.
The irony in all of this? My job in New York started a week before craziness began. By craziness, I mean all of the above that was mentioned and then some. EG: being in a group of people that has more than 10 individuals and receiving a misdemeanor. Like, what? We've never seen anything like this before.
What's good in the world? Maybe using this quarantine time to reconnect with loved ones. Or chatting on the phone with your friends via FaceTime or Skype or whatever app you choose to use because it's the 21st century and technology is everything and anything. Hell, it might even begetting the new Animal Crossing. I saw a tweet about a girl doing some weird stuff in order to get, like, some new garb for her island or whatever? At this point I'm just typing.
I'm on a 14 day quarantine with a certain someone due to recent travels up and down 95. My boss called me and said that we don't have to go to work for the upcoming week, and didn't give me a ring this week (yet) about working this week either. Administrative Leave and Emergency Leave are the name of the game.
The other day I watched the documentary about the really smart guy who went to jail who was one of the cofounders or whatever for reddit. Aaron Shwartz? I read his "Guerrilla Manifesto" and it was.... what I expected of a game developer. Daring, yet filling in the same mold of what every modern opposition piece. What he did different was actually being on his bully. He eventually leaked hundreds of court documents that he believed should have been available to the public. At least his words have reached out to an audience of one on this fine Monday night.
Quarantine has made every single day feel like the same. I don't have to wake up and worry about work in the morning. I don't have to worry about whether or not I'm gonna make it to a meeting on time or not. I am absolutely cooling. In every sense of the word. Pros and Cons.
Sidenote: I've been watching Epicly Later'd with BL for the last hour and a half.
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