It's a little weird to realize that the best thing I can do right now, possibly for myself and certainly for other people, is a lack of action. Stay home almost all the time, and avoid coming within two meters of anyone except ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude if I do go outside.
It seems as though "doing nothing effectively" isn't a good translation of the Taoist concept of wu wei, but Chinese or not, it's what most of us are being asked to do.
To those of you with essential jobs who are going out and doing them during the pandemic: thank you.
We're pretty well supplied for not going out for a week: I'll run out of yogurt and have to eat cereal for breakfast, and Cattitude might run out of cold cuts and breakfast on hard-boiled eggs, but this is barely a nuisance. I probably have another dairy milk for my tea, and if not there's soy milk.
cattitude if I do go outside.It seems as though "doing nothing effectively" isn't a good translation of the Taoist concept of wu wei, but Chinese or not, it's what most of us are being asked to do.
To those of you with essential jobs who are going out and doing them during the pandemic: thank you.
We're pretty well supplied for not going out for a week: I'll run out of yogurt and have to eat cereal for breakfast, and Cattitude might run out of cold cuts and breakfast on hard-boiled eggs, but this is barely a nuisance. I probably have another dairy milk for my tea, and if not there's soy milk.
