Frankly, since theatres were allowed to reopen after the big shutdown of 2020 the virus didn't really have a huge effect on my life and what I do during a day. I was only allowed to have 30 people here for the shows for a few months but there was only one day when more than 30 people came to a show and I had to turn anyone away. The overall business was and is far below what it was before, of course, but even with less people coming to the shows I've still been doing what I do. Selling tickets, running movies and selling popcorn is pretty much the same routine for five people as it was for fifty, there's just less trash to pick up after the show. Checking people's ID at the door is a new wrinkle and a bit of a nuisance but even that turns into just one more thing to do when a customer walks in the door.
We've never been the kind of people who go out and go to a lot of places, so life continued along pretty much like it did before; I just had to remember to take a mask with me whenever I did go out but that's a relatively minor adjustment.
Now omicron arrives and my theatre is closed again and everything seems to have suddenly regressed to what it was in the spring of 2020.
It does seem like this should have been avoidable if not for all of the graduates from the Facebook School of Medicine, and it would be easy to get really angry. But why add more stress; I'll just try not to go there.
We've never been the kind of people who go out and go to a lot of places, so life continued along pretty much like it did before; I just had to remember to take a mask with me whenever I did go out but that's a relatively minor adjustment.
Now omicron arrives and my theatre is closed again and everything seems to have suddenly regressed to what it was in the spring of 2020.
It does seem like this should have been avoidable if not for all of the graduates from the Facebook School of Medicine, and it would be easy to get really angry. But why add more stress; I'll just try not to go there.
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