Yes, we'd all have been in different places if not for it. JD and AD mighta' been out of Boston, I might have moved away, SS and JM planned to be in Florida, I'd have gone to VA to celebrate it with family etcetera. Things have been thrown off, clearly.
But the six of us that celebrated it, it was the usual gang, the 48 hour hangout too, we're the regular people to celebrate these things. In our own small bubble, that gets tested every week, doesn't hang out with anybody else. That's how things have been. They've not been terrible, yet.
The pandemic, in addition to taking life, destroying livelihoods, potentially changing retail and urban centers even education, forever, has bummed everybody out. Everybody is sick and tired of it, we feel like animals in captivity. It is true though, the virus doesn't care for our opinions, we may be over it, but it certainly isn't over us. In the US the deaths have been the greatest, west coast burns with the outbreak after outbreak, the hospitals are full in most parts of the country. Large part of the west too. The south east asians have done remarkably well, so have the two southern island countries. And china and taiwan obviously. Minor successes elsewhere but the west has bungled it from the start, first with the overconfidence of the west, then the fatigue, then the lack of care, the government incompetence, so many things gone wrong.
Our holidays though, they have been pretty great, our small gang remains the same, the hangouts not completely destroyed. If we'd been in Boston under different circumstances, we'd be celebrating it in this exact way with the same people.
In that way, we remained untouched.
Thanks to be the gods.
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