Two weeks ago, my roommate (who is also one of my best friends) told me she was going to drive 12 hours to quarantine with her long-distance boyfriend in California. Not only that, he was going to fly here and she’d pick him up from the airport and they’d start the drive straight from there. I thought this was idiotic. California already had shelter in place orders, plus getting on a plane was unnecessarily risky. Even more idiotic? We were waiting on covid-19 test results from a friend who we’d been around a week before. Six hours after my roommate left, our friend texted to say she’d tested positive. When I messaged my roommate to tell her she had to be extra careful with undertones of “what the fuck is wrong with you,” she told me I’m not the authority. I haven’t spoken directly to her since. I hope she stays in California. My friend who was (so frighteningly) sick has recovered, thank god.
long distance and high risk
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