{"id":58675,"date":"2021-07-20T06:48:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T11:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58675"},"modified":"2021-07-20T06:48:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T11:48:39","slug":"keeping-up-morale-in-the-fourth-turning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58675","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Up Morale in the Fourth Turning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keeping Up Morale in the Fourth Turning<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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During this part of the cycle, many of us have experienced some fairly extreme isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of how serious you believe the disease is, the isolation, fear, and paranoia it has caused have led to some major consequences to the psyche and overall well-being of billions of people worldwide.<\/div>\n
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The first nine months of the pandemic, I spent hunkered down on our property in the mountains of North Carolina. We stopped going to major stores, including grocery stores, on January 31, and we have not been back. Part of the reason for this was that after nine months of isolation on our mountain, I became pregnant with our first child. At this point, we thought adoption many years down the road was the only way children would play a part in our lives.<\/p>\n

All of a sudden, I was deemed as being in a high-risk group. Going to prenatal appointments and ultrasounds had to be done alone. It was 20 weeks before my husband even saw a picture, and that was only because they print them out for you. I have to admit I was a little scared of pregnancy during COVID-19. Pregnant women are four times more likely to need hospitalization and a ventilator, for example. The long-term effects on a fetus are unknown.<\/p>\n

That is my story. I think I have handled it better than average because even before lockdown, we tended to keep busy at home and didn\u2019t enjoy going out to shop. Most people are not like that. It is probably not good for anyone to stay at home for months at a time without going anywhere at all or seeing people besides immediate family.<\/b><\/p>\n

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