Hindsight is 2020
D, Sailor, Silver Glen Springs, FL
So it didn’t change us here much. I’ve been a member of the sailing club here for a long time so it’s easy to keep 6 feet of distance because you just put your boat in the water and off you go. We still had the organized races etc. What we didn’t do during that time was that you couldn’t congregate in the club, the food that we used to cook and everything to do with food was gone. What lockdown did was open up the roads. You’d wake up the in the morning and you wouldn’t hear traffic. No planes. Nothing. All the planes were parked--no one could go anywhere. It was still. So I’ve been a member, in a recovery program for 46 years so what changed with that was that we went to Zoom meetings. A lot of people complained that it wasn’t working but I think they just weren’t working it right. What I found was that as the groups got smaller, the people got more honest. People got a little more open about the way they got a solution. Because we don’t want to know how the jackass got into a ditch, we want to know how he got out. But my job today is the same as every other day: try to stay current, try to stay even and maybe help somebody. Basically it’s the community that survives, because as a community, this place functions perfectly as a community. We all have our own place to go, we spend our own time by ourselves but we eat together twice a day---we’re like monks out here: we eat real well, we eat good food.