Social Distance- Save a Life by Katie Groome

Right now I am sitting on my deck outside, and as I was thinking of different things I could write this blog post on I looked over at the street and saw at least seven teenagers in a group with their skateboards as if the world was normal right now. I get it- this can get boring, it is hard to resist hanging out with your friends on a beautiful spring day, and after spending so much time with just our families, or, for others, living alone, it would be nice to see other faces- but at what cost? I look at social distancing and quarentine like a test to humans all around the world. Some people, the majority, have definitely been passing the test, and at the end of the test will be moving forward in life with success from overcoming this obstacle in the road. Others, however, have been failing this test, ignoring its importance, not realizing that the impact of their failure on this "social distance exam" could potentially be irreversable. My mom and I were taking a drive today, simply for no reason other than to get out of the house, and when we passed the center of town noticed not only a few, but rather several groups of people from toddlers to older individuals getting icecream, walking around close to one another, and sitting next to eachother on the boardwalk near the lake. I think the main reason people continue to disobey the quarentine is because the virus is essentially invisible. In other words, it is impossible to see who is carrying it when infected individuals are not showing obvious symptoms, or to see the surfaces it lives on. Put into a scenario, if someone on that boardwalk was holding up a loaded gun, nearly everyone would not have been sitting there hanging out, like everything was normal and their lives were not at stake. Yet even though it is possible that at least one, or maybe even more, of the people that were on the boardwalk, getting icecream, or walking through town carry this deadly, rapidly spreading virus, everyone continued to go about what they were doing as if it didn't exist. The point I am trying to make, with this not so well thought out scenario, is that just because we can't see the virus doesn't mean it is any less harmful or prevelant. We all would rather be back to living our lives as usual, without the constant fear that we are going to contract the corona virus from simply leaving our houses. I really hope the people who are continuing to disregard the quarentine, which is helping save lives everyday, come to the realization soon that during this time of crisis, their actions are hurting themselves and others in possibly unrepairable ways.