"Is your journey really necessary?"

This is NOT aimed at those who MUST go in to work, either as essential workers or “my kids won’t eat if I don’t work”.

My mother (who survived the bombing of Britain ((it wasn’t just 1940))) said the current situation reminded her of the WWII posters: “Is your journey really necessary”?

I Googled it up:

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=Sh6_XoagC8mIytMPyp6CyAU&q=world+war+2+poster+is+your+journey+really+necessary&oq=world+war+two+is+your&gs_lcp=CgZwc3ktYWIQARgBMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeMggIABAWEAoQHjIGCAAQFhAeMgYIABAWEB4yBggAEBYQHjIGCAAQFhAeOgUIABCDAToCCAA6BAgAEAo6BAgAEA06BggAEA0QHlDnCFjSpQFg9coBaAhwAHgAgAGiAYgB6BOSAQQyMS44mAEAoAEBqgEHZ3dzLXdpeg&sclient=psy-ab#spf=1589583463609


The miracles of modern technology! Our health plan lets us refill prescriptions by mail over a landline! ((after the doctors decide to send letters to nag people to come in to get monitored via lab work)) ((isn’t that so 70s??))

And with a computer, even more can be done.

So, what is a car for?

Required in-person medical appointments ((unless DARPA has a secret project, X-rays must be taken somehow and bones must be set/pinned, or more dire things Must Be Done for other conditions))

When I was a student, I could live on granola, peanut butter, canned veggies and tuna, rice and beans and pasta and the Sunday canned stew. Plus scarfing down all the ignored things at college event receptions, like salad items…

I do twice-weekly shops (with the jury-rigged T-shirt armhole face covering) to shop slightly healthy (not all flyers come out on the same day), the 20 mile-a week circuit, to get produce, any specials and sometimes chicken ((seen markdown beef, or in some stores ANY beef lately? NOT)), mail bills at the PO (the mailman lost one of my outgoing payments) and occasionally go by the debit union to get cash for food and other things, such as Mother’s Day plants.

Then I immediately wash my hands, peel off clothing, wash my hands and then my body.

My mother’s a great cook. I’d like to keep her.