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Just a reminder that staying home and doing nothing but eating trash panda snacks and forgetting to shower is LITERALLY saving multiple lives, so really you are a hero that would otherwise get a news story in better times go eat that cake.
If you are a parent, you’re not only a hero for staying home, but you can add your children to the numbers of lives saved. Go ahead and give them that mac n cheese again and if you do nothing else but keep them alive and safe, gold star PTA award.
If you’re actually trying to work to keep food on the table while not risking harm to others? Legend. Or do something remotely healthy like exercise so you don’t get sick and further burden the healthcare system? Check out Mother Teresa over here.
If you’re managing to do all that while being kind, checking in on friends and family, and keeping a sense of humor? LOOK AT THIS SHOW OFF OVER HERE.
Like if there was ever a time for #bareminimum life-ing, the time is now. If you’re doing the bare minimum to keep yourself afloat, keep your job, feed your kids, maintain a shred of sanity, you’re CRUSHING IT.
Even if you’re lying in your own filth surrounded by candy wrappers and pet hair, yup, still saving lives.
This is our bootleg version of heroic wartime acts. We may not be hiding our neighbors from fascists or participating in the Underground Railroad, but we are increasing the odds of more lives saved every hour we watch Tiger King and Peppa Pig.
Is your boss or social media or your kids’ school going to make you feel lowkey guilty for not doing more? Sure. But they would make you feel that way ANTYWAYS.
We are living in a time of plague. Except we actually have a chance to get through it halfway intact with technology. Do you realize how crazy it is that they can work so fast on a vaccine now that we can just sit and home and wait for it?
Yes, there are shortages to equipment, BUT THE EQUIPMENT EXISTS.
So just staying home is aiding in vaccine research, making TECH THAT WORKS go longer, and, once again, saving lives.
In conclusion,
XOXO, Mom.
P.S. This is not to mock or knock people who are being hyperproductive and “doing stuff” while sheltering in place. If you’re still eating clean and lifting weights and doing full glam and homeschooling without screen time, like, that’s legitimately amazing.
It’s just a general reminder that EVEN IF all you do today is make a cup noodle, drink a flat soda you left on the counter, and cry in the shower, you saved your own life and freed up a ventilator for someone who needs it.
We just live in a crazy time in history where technology and science is so lit that we can actually see - in the midst of a catastrophic, history-making pandemic - a return to some semblance of normalcy in the not too distant future.
The fact that we are worried about our clothes fitting or our children’s progress in math or keeping our jobs means we actually assume we will make it out of this semi-quickly, instead of living in terror that a plague will almost certainly kill our entire village.
That in itself is an enormous privilege - where we are in history, the country we live in, the technology we have access to.
And all we have to do is stay home and keep breathing. Literally, just keep breathing.
