'We are not meant to be alone. That state of alert, if it is prolonged, puts wear and tear on our bodies.'
For some, like Edward Watson, it took a while before the isolation really started to hit.
But even for Watson, 54, the near-total shutdown has drained him. He can't go visit his parents or his grandmother in Florida, terrified he will contract the coronavirus and pass it to them. His thrift stores are closed, the flea market is shut down. And most of the storefronts that encompasses Toccoa's tiny downtown are closed up.The stay-at-home orders came at a particularly hard time for J. Denise Kulick.
"I walked down the embankment, took my clothes off and swam," he said."Just hearing the roar of the waterfall, I was bouncing between some of the rocks. That's what I needed, that spiritual swim in that gorgeous setting.Kulick thought of her grandmother who lost her first husband to a flu epidemic in 1907. Then her house burned down. Then she lost her second husband to another flu epidemic in the 1910s.
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