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Coronavirus And The Single Girl (or Guy)
Being sick when you’re solo is rarely, if ever, easy, but thinking that your coupled friends have it better isn’t necessarily true
For the longest time, single women have had an irrational fear of dying alone. It may have been prompted by a popular episode of Sex and the City in which Miranda excitedly buys her first home as a single woman only to discover that the former owner was also a single woman who died there and it took days to even realize she was dead.
Then it hits her — she could likely meet the same fate.
The truth is most of us will indeed age alone and, yes, die alone so all singles — never-marrieds, divorced or widowed — should plan for that.
Now that the coronavirus is spreading across the country and more people are dying from it, everyone is wondering how to plan for a virus that we don’t fully understand, have questionable testing methods for and no vaccine against. And for those of us who live alone, the predicted pandemic can feel slightly more urgent.
Who will help care for us if we get the virus? How will we manage by ourselves?
It’s true that in many ways, preparing for COVID-19 is no different if you’re single or partnered — having at…
