Income Through a Pandemic

Canada
February 21, 2021 1:26pm CST
I currently work Full-Time. I'm very grateful for this. A lot of people are saying that I'm lucky that I'm able to work during this global pandemic. However, I am risking my own health every day. I work at a physiotherapy clinic, so I work closely with our patients. I've come into close contact with two patients that had tested positive for Covid-19. Public Health told us that I would be fine as long as I had my mask and protective glasses on, and that I wasn't less than 6 feet away from them for more than 15 minutes. I found that really stupid. How do they determine how long it takes for the virus to transfer to another person? 15 minutes? Sounds made up to me. Regardless, I'm healthy. I recently started a side job, delivering for SkipTheDishes. I'm not entirely sure if it's only in Canada. It's a delivery company. They pay you to drive around, pick food up, and deliver the food to the people that ordered it. The income is decent, however, again I'm risking my health by visiting a lot of restaurants. I also have to enter apartment buildings. I have 3 bottles of hand sanitizer in my car, and I always wear my face mask. I didn't think too much of it until a customer thanked me for "doing what I do". The customer had 3 vehicles in his driveway. I realized that I was risking my health so that this person could eat. I don't mind it. I would just hate to catch covid and transfer it to someone else. Is anyone else working through the pandemic? If so, what are your thoughts?
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (91088)
• United States
21 Feb 21
The pandemic has not affected me nor my wife financially. We have both continued to work through it and I am grateful for that. I think a lot of businesses were closed unnecessarily and unfairly. But that's for another day. Are we risking our health? Who knows? I know many people who were in direct contact with people who had Covid who never got it. I think the bottom line is no one really knows what caused it, how it is transmitted, and who will get it and who won't and so on and so forth. And I am still convinced this really was never a true pandemic. Glad to hear that you, as well, have been able to maintain an income through this whole thing. The silver lining is that I think we are FINALLY getting back to at least SOME sense of normal, and so the end of this thing is near.
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M1DN1GHTS0UL
@m1dn1ghts0ul (63)
• Canada
21 Feb 21
I agree with you. I believe that a lot of businesses were closed unfairly as well. In my hometown, all of the tattoo shops were closed down. I thought that it was absurd. Certified tattoo artists have been using masks, gloves, and limiting the amount of customers that they have long before this "pandemic" even started. They are probably some of the most sanitary people because they need to be. We also had a stretch of time, where they banned the purchase of any "non-essential" item. It was ridiculous and didn't make any sense at all to me. It didn't stop people from entering stores to buy other items. It didn't stop people from touching non-essential items and trying to purchase them. I'm glad that you were not affected financially. A lot of people were. My fiancé hasn't worked in over 6 months. His employer says that he is still employed, and that they just don't have any projects (he's a residential painter). Right now, we are only allowed 2 designated visitors in our household, so that plays a huge part in all of this. I can't wait for this all to be over. Although, it would be hard to adjust to "normal life" again. I can't picture myself allowing a stranger to stand less than 3 feet away from me in line at a store. I've gotten used to the social distancing.
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (91088)
• United States
24 Feb 21
@m1dn1ghts0ul As crazy as it sounds, this was all a planned event. To change the economy, to change culture, to change people's interaction with each other, to present a gloom and doom scenario that the left uses to hold and maintain its power over people. They want people afraid of everything, and in despair, so that they can come in like superheroes and save the day.