An Unpublished Post on Life During the First Month of COVID-19

Three plus years later, I am making my thoughts public on our lives and my thoughts at the time the pandemic began.

Fern Frons in Spring, (2023), Carol Labuzzetta

It’s Easter Sunday, April 12th 2020. We’ve been relegated to our homes for schooling since March 16th. The Governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, proclaimed a Safer at Home Order on March 23rd, to last at least until April 26th of 2020. Did I mention it’s April 12th? It’s been a month and we still have some time to go.

Photo by Roger Granquist on Unsplash

This weekend, my family started to show signs of having had enough. We’ve hit the proverbial wall so to speak. I got off social media last Thursday. I had to. I’ve had enough. There is a lot of “fakeness” going on out there. Fake statements about missing school from kids who all they did was complain about it before. The fake drama about missing prom, graduation, and spring sports. Parades of people waving to athletes in cars to “say good-bye” and made-up motivational or celebratory posts for students who did not even play the spring sport for which they are being celebrated…