MY LIFE
How I Dealt with the Covid Pandemic While Legally Blind
If you even think you have Covid, don’t come here!
Living through a pandemic of a novel virus was an experience that I don’t ever want to go through again. I have never in my life seen so many people being so stupid, all at the same time.
Maybe I need to be more patient. Maybe we all do. I think too many of us forget that this pandemic came with a huge learning curve and that all of us, including our country’s leadership in two different presidential administrations, were flying by the seat of their pants, hoping we could trust the advice of people who were only slightly less clueless than we were. Maybe I and the rest of us ought to be more forgiving of mistakes made by leadership.
My story
I work in blindness rehabilitation, so I was considered an essential worker throughout the pandemic. I probably could have gotten vaccinated sooner than I did, because I’m enough overweight to be considered obese, and I was an essential worker. But I waited until people my age were allowed to get vaccinated because I felt older people than I needed it the most.
My feelings about life during the pandemic were mixed. First, staff in my department were allowed to work remotely. As an admin support employee I still had to…