The Covid 19 Change: Re-examining Our Need for Physical and Social Structure in a Time of Change

You might think to yourself this is just another story about how Covid has changed our lives and up until now no one has thought about this one aspect of how Covid has changed us a race, a nation, or even just as one person in a sea of others. Well here is the truth we have (like we often do) over thought through this whole situation looking for our unique thought on a topic hopping others notice us. The truth is that everything I am about to tell you has already been said and that nothing about that I’m about to talk about matters all that much it’s only my take.

We think we are in control all of what we can control and that those deep instinctual things that we all need or want are safely housed just under the surface and another's right at the surface where they can annoy all the rest of us. Covid has shown me that a lot of what I learned in school is a lie when it comes to the practice of what I do. I've always been told that we are in important part in the medical profession are and that humanity needs physical touch and emotional support to survive. I think that in general it's a nice sentiment but when it comes to survival professionals like me are really unimportant as a matter fact I think some people with an incredible amount of simplicity can tell you that not only are we not necessary but we're probably the last thing that people really need.

When the chips are down let me tell you what happened to many bodyworkers like myself: people were sad when they could not get what they wanted and when they had a chance to have small parts of their “normal life back” this summer they all came running. Now with economic hardship on the horizon and the continued throttling of news organizations about variance and other terrifying news of unrest and incivility we are again not part of “normal life again”. I can tell you that my practice has expanded this year beyond all expectations during the spring and summer months and now as we slip into winter business has collapsed. You can read all the charts and say things like: you had a good year so don’t complain now when you could use the rest anyway, or these things are going fluctuate naturally and the simply enjoy some downtime. The reality is that people came up for air during the summer of 2021. We are now holding our breath again. How long can you do that? I don’t know, frankly the the lack of civil unrest is actually a much more interesting and surprising side effects than one might initially get a credit for.

Despite my theory that we are now holding our collective breath again I never really heard a great deal this summer about people being tired as a matter fact there was a great deal of exuberance and happiness that I can get a little piece in their life back even for a moment. This speaks to me as two things, one, my body is not doing as well as I would like so this is more about pain management until “real medical” attention is available and in varying percentages a feeling of some sort connected to ritual necessarily than a need for more human contact. .As a matter fact I would venture to say that people are probably over connected to each other and have the need for human contact is quickly been breached with the technology that might seem a natural but we perceive as more natural than what it actually is.

Realistically I think I gave into we desire to help bridge people’s physical gaps in medical care as our medical system already broken is slowly crumbling. Spending thousands of dollars on equipment upgrades Do you help people manage longer as they wait for proper medical care from specialists and their general practitioners who are currently overloaded. Even hospitals performing routine medical procedures are finding themselves swamped with patients waiting for care and rehabilitation. As I actually type this blog post I realize that spending thousands on new updated equipment can be my own way of thinking that we are not holding our breath but that this is a new sort of normal that is currently here and that I am simply trying to think in a forward fashion. The truth is the success of the situation obvious in overtime and that a crapshoot is equally as likely to come out with them winning I'll come as me buying equipment is.

I think the biggest truth I can glean from actually sitting down and writing these thoughts out is that we can survive on significantly less than what we anticipated. To recognize it in other terms as some kind of simplistic answer would be shallow at best because it fails to take into account the odd twist and turns that fate seems to throw at us on our best collective days. It’s one of sticking points I see in so much of life right now: the city book smart people and their ideas verses the county farmer smarts that some people say they have. with both sides not being willing to admit that they do take fate into account but that it has a much lesser influence to give the illusion of a well framed argument in favor of their behavior and logic.

For whatever it is worth getting all this said does not seem make me feel better it just feels like another futile admission of insanity chasing after poorly constructed logic with a crazy world. Everything I used to be told in school about creating a private space for people and then when I did had significant value in their lives and they're just being present for another human being could bridge the gap for so many ultimately has proven to me to be fluff not fact. Babies are still born and people still die and our routines are still not what they once were. Despite my business experience before I got into this profession I honestly never thought that the polish would come off the mantle that I placed my profession on in such a significant way during my career. In case you're wondering if I think that my profession is in the people that work in it are a little crazy for believing that they make a difference I think that would be short sighted. And if you're willing to say at this point that my pessimism is logical and I would agree like so many of you (at least I think there are) I’m just going to be here holding my breath as things change, sometimes get better but then get worse again. In an odd way wanting a vacation (and like many people just can't afford it) from what you ask? Routine.