2020 Pandemic Recession put life’s uncertainty in front of us daily. Most of our careers, plans and routines are on hold or canceled. Add in a contentious 2020 Presidential Election (aren’t they all?).
Parents trying to remote work and school children from home. Plexiglas checkouts in stores. Family, friend and/or ourselves not having work. Missing seeing family, friends, classmates and coworkers. Putting in extra hours to make working from home as productive as in office. It’s not and can be stressful.
2020 has been disruptive. But that is how life is lived. From one uncertainty to another.
Be kind to yourself and family. Create routines and include down time, fun and exercise. Workdays get up usual time and wear Friday casual clothes to go in my home office. Missing volleyball, so added lifting dumbbells and Sunday morning run before Facebook church services. Along the way take pictures of views, flowers and wildlife to share online for fun. My sister and aunt on east coast are fans of flowers. Have Sunday calls or video calls to family and friends.
Breaks are important too, find every 45 minutes to 1.5 hours need to get away from screen, stretch, read, drink or eat something. Same as in office. Had to work long hours including Saturday and Sunday to meet a Tuesday deadline. This weekend staying away from office computer to refresh. You work more productively refreshed.
People are more resilient than you know. Look more at what you accomplished than the to do list. Put away endless news programs scaring you for ratings. This election will take longer to count because of more mail in ballots. However the results will come, and regardless of who wins the US has checks and balances to correct overreaches. If you are struggling talk with friends or a professional. No one is not struggling now.
Life will go on and more discoveries and technologies will improve our future. Look at uncertainties we have overcome - wars, pandemics and recession:
Cold War 1947-91
Asian Flu 1957
Recession 1958
Vietnam War 1959-1975
Recession 1960-61
Seventh cholera pandemic 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
Korean DMZ Conflict 1966-69
London Flu 1968
Recession 1969-70
Recession 1973-75
Smallpox 1974
Soviet Flu 1977
Anthrax 1979
Recession 1980
HIV/AIDS 1981
Recession 1981-82
Intervention in Lebanon 1982-84
Invasion of Grenada 1983
Bombing Libya 1986
Yellow Fever 1986-87, 2012, 2016
Tanker War 1987-88
Invasion of Panama 1989-90
Bosnian War 1992-95
Recession 1990-91
Gulf War 1990-91
Cholera 1991-93, 2001, 2004, 2006-08, 2010-20
Bubonic Plague 1994, 2008, 2014-17
Intervention in Haiti 1994-95
Kosovo War 1998-99
Dengue Fever 2000, 2004-05, 2007-09, 2013, 2017
Recession 2001
SARS 2002-2004
Afghanistan 2001-20
Iraq War 2003-12
Ebola 2004, 2007, 2013-16, 2018-20
Malaria 2006
Recession 2007-09
Mumps 2009
Swine Flu 2009, 2015
Measles 2010-14, 2019-20
MERS 2012-2020
Chikungunya 2013
Intervention in Syria 2014-20
Zika 2015
Seasonal Flu 2017
SARS Covid 19 2020
Recession 2020
Total 14 conflicts, 22 diseases and 9 recessions during my life. There will be more and we will overcome.
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