After my long, frustrating, and unenjoyable trip to the grocery store today, I started to think about why people are having a hard time staying away from each other, literally.
My first reaction after entering the store was one filled with terror and fear. Terror from seeing hundreds of masked-faces inside the store, and fear from thinking about how I can protect myself from them all.
The retail store seemed like a battleground. A place from where I had to not only defeat my enemies (in this case, the crowd inside the store), but also, make it out alive (back to my car).
To label all those people as my enemies though, was something that I soon realized was a bit of an over exaggeration on my part. After all, just like me, they were also trying to make it out alive.
The trip to the grocery store today in turn made me reflect on my experience and prompted me to think about the question as to why it might be hard for everybody to socially distance themselves from others. My twitter thread dwells on some of the problematic situations one could experience firsthand on their trip to a grocery store.
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