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Seth Meyers: How Trump and Kushner Failed on Testing and Ventilators: A Closer Look

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jamesfirecat4/03/2020 4:11:37 pm PDT

Guys I need/want your sage advice, or at least a chance to scream into the void.

I was lucky enough to get a job offer in early March that hasn’t been terminated and allowed me to start working again in late March after loosing my old job mid February.

There’s just one catch, I need to get a CAC (Common Access Card) which is something I’ve done two or three times before.

Now though… now I’ve managed to hunker in my home with my two parents since early March, and all of us are hale and healthy because we started practicing social distancing/sheltering in place way before it was the official order of the day in our state.

We’ve figured out how to order large quantities of food and other necessary supplies from distributors and the few activities that require us to interact with others can be done in ways that are more or less extremely unlikely to allow for the disease to be passed along (get needed medication in CVS drive through while wearing gloves and masks, have bottle placed in plastic container, leave container in car for several days)

I am scared out of my wits though about the prospect of going inside a building (where the virus can hang around rather than getting blown away by the wind) talking with people whose history I have no idea of knowing, and by necessity taking off any mask I wear to get my picture taken, and ditto gloves to get my finger prints checked.

I’m not so much worried about myself because I’m not in the category of those in extreme danger, but as noted I’m sheltering in place with my parents. I don’t know what my mental state would be like (other than bad) if me going out to get a CAC caused me to contract COVID and then pass it along to them and get one or both of them killed.

So right now in an email chain with my new boss I’m slowly but steadily building up to that being the red line I can’t cross and hoping that I’ll get lucky and they’ll be willing to bend/find some other way to keep me onboard…. because as some of you may remember I am the privileged Cis White Het Male Protestant Upper Middle Class child of two parents who are still married and alive who managed to pay off all their college loans less than three years out of college… I’m playing the game at life’s lowest difficulty setting where you still have to make an effort and the thought of loosing them BECAUSE OF SOMETHING I DID scares me way more than joining the shambling (well more like sitting) horde of unemployed… at least on a sane and rational level.

On an emotional level it sucks suck sucks to get fired for a concrete reason that you know if you just gave more of yourself you could avoid… but this is asking more than I think I can give right now….

So yeah, pity party table of Firecat… (blows steamer)