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Life Updates and Thoughts on 2020
5 years ago
Dancing Through Life...
Howdy everyone. First and foremost, I hope everyone seeing this is well. I miss my furry friends so very much.
As you maybe saw, I finally updated FA with some art and fursuit photos and there's still more to come. But I also wanted to write a new journal since things have been really weird this year.
2020 started off and I hoped it'd be a big improvement over 2019 for personal reasons. I had huge goals this year to better myself and my physical and mental health. Jan and Feb were focused on ANE and my con work. ANE 2020 was another great success and I got at least a little fursuiting in with friends and time spent with the people I cherish most.
But March brought a massive unexpected twist due to the huge spike in Covid-19 cases and it being deemed a global pandemic. In MA we went into quarantine lockdown March 16th and now, 59 days later, we are still observing that. For 59 days I have been working from home and I have only seen Strobes who I live with, and my parents who are both very healthy but still need assistance from time to time. I've only gone outside for fitness walks and groceries. Face masks have become the norm and sometimes even rubber gloves. It feels so weird! But I'm incredibly thank to live in MA, I think we're handling it super well considering Boston is a major city and the biggest epicenter of the pandemic is right next door in NYC. My love and endless gratitude goes out to all the healthcare workers, doctors, nurses, hospital janitors, first responders, scientists, grocery workers and other frontline employees that are putting themselves at great risk to help as many people as possible in this insane time. It's gunna be a long and hard road but I know humanity can get through it.
In the meantime and on a personal note, it means that my fun cons this year where I don't staff, Furnal Equinox, Furry Weekend Atlanta and Anthrocon were all cancelled. And honestly it is heart wrenching to know I won't have those amazing con moments, the chance to further explore those great cities and eat at local joints, and that I won't see my incredible friends. I was asked to attend Camp Feral this year as well with a friend but it's unlikely that will happen now that August cons are cancelling. On top of that MFF, may very well get cancelled if there is a predicted second spike in the colder months. Could it be that March 2020-Dec 2020 will be without a furry con!?! What a nightmare world...
I just can't wait to fursuit with others again, to enjoy hugs and cuddle, to have many laughs and to live in the moment again, I know it will happen. It's so difficult to think how far away it might be, scary to think of the world as it is, but we can get through this! I'm happy to see the fandom rallying to help, making cloth face masks, setting up virtual cons and events, friend groups doing more voice/video calls and games... that's all good stuff. Please remember to reach out to your friends during all this insanity. We're all struggling, and we all gotta hold each other up.
Be well everyone, one day there will be cons and furmeets again and we'll all have so much fun. Stay safe, be well, help others. I love you all.
~Gale Frostbane
I wish you the best for all of us, american fur fellas. Thankfully, in my country we are handling this situation well, as i know. I just get out for supermarket stuff, and making some commissions to earn some money. Hope you and Strobes can keep taking care of yourselves :)
Oh and Gale, my sister is a nurse at Boston Med. Give her a shoutout cause she can really use the support. Continue to stay safe, hun.
Also I rarely mention this, but seeing how it's important right now, I happen to be a grocery worker myself.