Quarantine Day 18: I'm getting really good at UNO
No matter how we buy food it seems that, normally, we do need something new every 4-5 days and we talk about if its worth taking the risk for food shopping, or whether we should wait another 2-3 days before we go. So I will tell you about our food shopping experience today.
The government only allows 1 person from each family to go for food shopping at one go. I assume for avoiding crowds in the mall. Tommy ( my husband) wore a mask, gloves, went with the bags from home and waited in the queue to go in to the shop. Every isle was allowing a few people in order to obey the rule of 1 metre distance, same as the till line. Strange thing is that there is no food outage but I wonder until when, most of the products are coming from outside of Italy. There is no restriction on the goods but who knows what will happen tomorrow? I mean just until yesterday at least I could walk my dog to the next street and today I woke up to the news that I only should be walking in my own street.
We try not to watch the news too much, I just find myself tweeting a lot and seeing how other people feel. I’m watching many countries like a flashback of Italy a month ago. Most of the countries actually have Italy in front of them to learn from but it seems that history repeats itself. People are still running to crowded shopping malls to do their food shopping, people think that its a holiday the fact their schools or jobs get canceled.
This is not a drill, unfortunately we are straight thrown into this fire pit with no preparation or warning. There is still a debate between people defending their right to go to a restaurant but forgetting the other people’s right to live. Meanwhile our days are becoming more filled inside the house. Seems like after 2 weeks we finally broke the sit on the couch and do nothing but feel like we can fill out our space more by doing things together. I will try reading some pages now but I drank 3 glasses of wine and a glass of gin which made me very sleepy. Since otherwise I can’t seem to fall asleep until 03.00 am, wondering if tomorrow will be a better day.
Goodnight x