Staying safe during pandemic ‘not just about you’

“It was a couple months after hearing of the coronavirus that I really began to sit up and take notice. The case numbers kept rising. Worse than that, the death numbers were rising at an alarming rate. I’ve been retired 17 years, so I’m used to being at home almost all the time. So having to limit our comings and goings was nothing new. Even though it kept a lot of people from going to work, it provided an opportunity to do some things around the house, which is what we did. We took care of projects that we’ve been putting off for years. Other people had the same idea. I went to Lowe’s looking for wooden cedar fence pickets, and the man there said they sold them as soon as they got them in. A lot of that was from when the hurricane hit Louisiana.

“The pandemic has made me realize that there are people who can get a bit selfish when they don’t take things like this seriously. I heard several people say that they weren’t going to change their lifestyle. Meanwhile, they had parents living at home who were very susceptible to the virus because of their age, etc. It’s not always just about you. I believe that if people had taken this more seriously, we may very well have been over it by now. 

“I thank God for getting me and my family through this so far. It has made me appreciate the things that we have taken for granted. I am praying that this will soon be over, before more sickness and death occurs.”

— Don Cunningham