Remember the lockdowns? Some still are lockdowned.
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Remember the lockdowns? Some still are lockdowned.
Due to my rare disease, for a decade before the COVID lockdowns, I was homebound. For the five years preceding COVID, I was completely homebound. I still am.
During and after the COVID lockdowns, I received more empathy from friends, family and even medical providers because they got to experience the lifestyle of a person homebound.
They experienced the bad, the good, the lonely. Learned how to make a lifestyle out of the situation and learned how to hide the intermediate sadness of it to protect others in their circle from the depressive feeling of lockdown.
Now that the lockdowns are over, and people are free to responsibly socialize again, I hope people don't forget there are millions of people homebound, some in their own circle, and make some effort to be more than a passing participant in their lives.
