I need your help to protect my family from COVID-19: Reporter's notebook.
ABC News chronicles the rising cases of coronavirus across the U.S. and how politicians, celebrities and the public reacted.I need you to help me protect my family.
Jackie’s doing tremendously well, thankfully. And given the myriad of chronic health issues that come with quadriplegia, Matt’s in good health as well. Caregiving keeps Jackie and I largely at home -- “antisocial shut-ins,” we joke to friends -- so the pandemic lockdown is more familiar to us than not. We go out about once a week now, separately, to run necessary errands. We wore masks even while the experts still were insisting it was unnecessary -- gloves as well. We wipe down our debit cards, keys and phones afterward, and the countertops at home where the bags sat after we unpack, washing our hands several times throughout.
They didn’t dub it “social distancing” then. It was dread, fear of being infected by “the influenza,” as they called it. I imagine my great-grandmama felt fine, too. Until she didn’t. Jackie and I talk about this. About death, what happens to the household when it happens, to whom it may happen first. We must. We have to plan for it, for Matt, and for us. This unsentimental practicality in the face of obdurate realities also is what being a caregiver has taught us.
But no matter how vigilant we are, it will matter less if you don’t do your part. Which returns us to the request that opens this essay.
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