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The Books With Laurie
Pandemic Lockdown Fatigue
Dysfunctional Family Reading List
(Modern Drama Edition)
By Laurie Allee
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It could be so much worse
Like many others, my little family has been self-isolating for exactly one year to ride out Covid-19. Yes, with the exception of dog walks, car drives and a few trips to the drive-through pharmacy, my husband, teenage daughter and I have hunkered down at home for 12 months. (So far.)
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| Birthday cakes in several locations |
As we've remained at home, we've celebrated Zoom birthdays, Zoom holidays, Zoom school conferences, Zoom work meetings, Zoom seminars, Zoom meetups, Zoom movie nights, Zoom coffee breaks and a few Zoom meetings to tell us how to make the most of Zoom meetings. In what has to be our most surreal and heartbreaking moment of the pandemic, we attended a Zoom funeral.
Living in Los Angeles has been a kind of Covid-19 Groundhog Day: surge after surge after awful, deadly surge. With health risks, we're fortunate we can hide out this way. A year seems like an impossible amount of time -- and it's not over yet -- but we're lucky. We've known people who didn't make it through to see this odd anniversary. I'm profoundly grateful for the ability to hide out in a house that I love with the people that I love the most.
And yet...
