How Productive Do I Have to be During a Pandemic?

And am I even helping at all?

I’m doing stuff! Am I? Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash

As life for many people in the United States has stopped, there’s a rising need, an anxiety, an obsession: To be productive.

After all, we have been raised to think we need to work all the time. To be lazy in our country means to deserve death, homelessness, and shame. So when we are in a position where…