By Katherine Schneider, for the Chippewa Valley Post
Editor’s note: This is the third instalment of a new CVPost feature by Kathie Schneider. We will publish three of her columns a week in this space. We hope you enjoy them.
What about us singles?
Much of the advice about doing social distancing is for couples and families. Wrestling with who would notice if a single person got sick or had an accident, I came up with the following template for singles to make a deal with each other.
I refer to the people I’ve made this deal with as Calvin’s Tribe (in honor of my new guide dog). You may hear more from them (anonymously of course) as they respond to my daily contacts.
In the meantime, here’s the template:
Name:
Address:
Phone: Email:
Contact person:
Contact person’s email or phone:
Local Contact person (if different):
Local contact person’s info:
Instructions for gaining entry to house or apatment:
Preferred hospital:
Preferred method for check in, e.g. phone or email:
I will contact you every morning and if I don’t hear back within 24 hours I will call and if there’s no answer I will send a trusted person to enter your home or call 911.
Please feel free to adapt this to fit your own situation.
NOTE: Comments and ideas can be emailed to schneiks@uwec.edu.
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