The pandemic has been a shared disaster on a global level.
#Stuck at home covid full#
It’s been a full year of living in an outbreak, and almost that long a stretch of people making movies about it, which is long enough that some of these productions can offer up a weird, vertiginous form of nostalgia that comes with none of the pleasure or yearning we normally associate with the sensation. People on screen have their first brushes with all sorts of things that are novel to them and now terribly familiar to so many of us - like cabin fever, endless video chats, and increasingly uncertain employment prospects. And there have been many, many diaries in which people show off their shrunk down worlds and try to reckon with their constant dread and crushing boredom. There were two films in which a character falls down and everyone thinks that she’s dead, but then she isn’t, which is the kind of move that just screams, “How else am I going to engineer drama in a story about people unable to go anywhere?” There’ve been at least two features that imagine the pandemic continuing for years, and enforcement of stay-at-home orders getting more militant, while a few others have skipped ahead to apocalypse, as though it were the natural progression. I’ve also seen a pair of movies that take place entirely on a Zoom call, and even more that feature Zoom in some way. We’re still quarantining, 12 months later, and I’ve already seen three movies with that premise. And on March 18, it will have been 365 days since I blithely tweeted, after only one delirious week of lockdown, that “No one will be fully prepared for the wave of indie films hitting 18 months from now about people falling in or out of love when they end up stuck together during quarantine.” The joke, it turned out, would be on me. March 10, according to my calendar app, was the date of a friend’s book party, which was the last time I set foot in a bar (I also left reminders for myself to pick up some boneless pork shoulder and my dry cleaning). My camera roll assures me that Mawas the last time I saw the inside of a restaurant, courtesy of a photo of the whole fish that my party of four laid waste to. The trouble with COVID anniversaries is that the digital era makes it much too easy to scroll back to what we were doing and thinking a year ago, turning every activity into a marker of loss and every social-media statement into a portent of doom. So, what to do while you’re spending a lot more time on your own? We’ve got you covered.Sofia Carson in the pandemic thriller Songbird Photo: Courtesy of STXfilms
People with chronic health conditions, such as diabetes, asthma, and liver and heart disease.Anyone over age 65 (e.g., your grandparents or parents).Even if you feel healthy, you could be carrying the disease to others. Most importantly, stay away from those in the higher risk groups for complications and death from COVID-19. Keeping your distance-by staying home as much as you can and aiming for at least six feet between you and others when possible-will lessen the burden on our healthcare system and ultimately reduce the number of deaths related to COVID-19.
Social distancing isn’t just about protecting you, it’s about reducing the total number of people who get sick and slowing down the spread of COVID-19. Do I need to socially distance, even if I feel healthy? Social distancing may sound like a strange term, but it really just means all of us keeping to ourselves as much as possible until the worst of this is over. While the idea of being able to binge-watch your favorite Netflix show and staying home doing nothing for a few weeks sounds like heaven, it can get old…quickly. Stuck at home? 7 dos and don’ts to make the best of social distancing
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