Is COVID Time the New Thing?

 

November 12, 2020

 

Ever since the pandemic started, my newspaper delivery is getting later and later.

 

With so many people in lockdown, I can understand the carrier not dragging him- or herself out of bed before dawn to deliver a paper to people with no place to go, since they wouldn’t need to read the news before leaving for work.

But people are working again, and the paper delivery still gets later.

I’ve heard of Southern Time, and Indian Time (from both Native Americans and Indian Americans), and Smith Time (a pseudonym for my family’s chronic lateness), all ways to describe a relaxed approach to starting times. 

I wonder if my carrier is working on COVID Time.