(Pandemic Diary - day 14)

From my journal: 12 March 2020 (Thursday)

So we’re still making our trip to Pittsburgh this weekend, seeing the show and having the big Grand Concourse buffet the next morning. From everything I’m reading, this is irresponsible, but I’m saying that we’re still ahead of the curve and we can do this one last weekend before we go completely into crisis mode where we hunker down at home and do absolutely no unnecessary travel.

I don’t know if this rationalization is valid or not, but chances are we’ll get through it without incident, and we’ll have a good visit with my parents and see a good show and have some good food and be glad that we did it.

But in the back of my mind I can’t help but wonder how it will be if we, or more likely if they, do get sick from this, and we have to revisit this decision and feel guilty about it. The fact that Mom and Dad are “not too concerned about the virus” does not really justify my rationalization, but I’m using it that way anyhow, on the basis that they are independent actors capable of, and responsible for, making their own decisions.

I guess I’ll just leave it at that (and hope for the best).