One of the interesting patterns I notice with quarantine issues is that, while Plan A works, everything is fine, but my backup plans are a lot less reliable. Examples:

1) I am back at work now, and my plan A to go there is I get a ride from someone I work with who lives nearby. Usually that plan works! but if they aren't coming in or have to come in late, or when it's time to go home when we might finish our tasks at different times, I take public transportation. Except, of course, I have no idea if I can do that now. Public transportation is supposed to be sitting room only during quarantine; how long do I have to wait to get a train that has enough room to fit? If I'm going home, I'm at least at the terminal; eventually I will get on a train, even if there's a long queue, because at least the trains have to empty out there. If I'm going to work, I'm taking the train in the middle of its route; during usual times I've had multiple occasions where I had to let trains go by because I literally can't fit inside. During quarantine, presumably there's fewer people, but still: sitting room only. Is there ever gonna be a train with free seats stopping by my station? I don't know! How is it enforced? I also don't know!

2) My water heater has been malfunctioning lately, to the point that being able to shower in the morning was a coin toss, and yesterday I could not get it to stay on at all. Which means I need to find someone to fix it who's willing to show up on short notice and work during quarantine. As it happens I did, but I'm kind of out of alternatives if I hadn't.

3) When my power goes out for a long time, or my apartment stops having water, or whatever (these things happen) my backup plan is to temporarily move back in with my parents. Can I do that during quarantine? I have no idea! It's certainly a risk in terms of health, but it's also a risk in terms of what the fuck do I do if I get stopped by the cops moving my stuff from one place to another. Does my "hey this person is free to move around because of their job" permit cover it? What would I have done before I got my permit? If I were in shitty terms with my parents, as lots of people are, would I be able to find a hotel right now?

4) Recently in various jurisdictions (including the one I live in and the one I work in) it became mandatory to wear a mask in public. It also became illegal to buy surgical masks/n95 respirators, because healthcare workers need those (this was the same law declaring both of those things). Which, y'know, I happen to be a human being in a modern industrialised society that has developed the concept of "division of labour"? My default plan for getting things I need is finding someone whose job it is to make the thing, and buy it from them; it works really well. Right up until the point where you make a new thing necessary and also make it illegal to buy it from the people who were, until now, making it.

I managed to find a way to make a temporary mask without sewing (because I don't know how to sew, and if I cared to learn I can't exactly go to the nearest store and buy supplies) and hold out until I managed to acquire a not-illegal-to-sell-but-still-made-by-someone-with-relevant-skills-and-access-to-materials mask.

I have a broader point this ties into but this post is long enough already and the one I want to write is harder. So, let's leave it here for now and I'll see if I can work my thoughts out properly for the sequel