Should I stay or should I go now?
The Clash, 1982
Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go, there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know
Well, with it’s advisory of March 19, the State Department squelched our plan to conduct our social distancing amongst the remote cays of the Bahamas.
We’d been provisioning for several weeks in Key West to sustain a 6-week trip to the beautiful and remote chain of islands.
The increasing concern about Coronavirus began as an annoyance as regular folks started buying up the same sort of food and supplies that we were stocking up.
Empty shelves at the commissary.
Crazy lines at Costco.
Then the governmental actions.
For a while, it seemed like heading out to the islands seemed like the prudent kind of ‘social distancing’ that could be undertaken with a touch of legitimacy.
That was then.