In the Ebata family, we try to be careful about household infection with the new coronavirus, but I still feel that there is a limit to what we can do.

We can't avoid talking to each other as a family, and it's difficult to wear a mask all the time in the house.

So, just like the government's current policy to focus intensively on conversations during eating and drinking, the Ebata family has also concentrate the time of "eating and drinking".

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It's been called "the time just before the collapse of healthcare", but not "the time after the collapse of healthcare".

After all, I guess anyone would not want to be the first to declare the 'collapse of healthcare'.

I think that it is the same meaning as the word "default," which was wildly used during the Greek economic crisis.

"Default" means "a nation throws away its debt payments". In other words, "a nation declares that it will not make payments on its bonds".

If we were to conform to this (default), 'medical collapse' would mean 'medical inability to save lives'. Well, no one would want to accept and declare such a fact.

I think that is why the phrase "just before the collapse of healthcare" is still being used.

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Ebata: "Anyway, just keep enduring for now! Household infections may be inevitable, but for now, we've got to get away! If it's next month or the month after that, there's a chance we'll have enough time to get medic!"

When I said that, my junior daughter told me something I didn't expect.

Junior: "You know, we (teenagers) are hardly afraid of our own infection.

Ebata: "...What?"

Junior: "We already know that even if we are infected, we will either have no symptoms or we will be symptoms of a common cold"

Ebata: "..."

Junior: "What we usually talk about is 'not infecting our parents' and 'not killing our parents' - that's all"

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In short,

"Do you (parents, elderly) have time to worry about infecting others (children)?"

"You (parents, elderly) should come up with your own defense measures so that you don't get infected from us (children)."

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There is a strange (and rare in the history of mankind) social phenomenon going on right now, where the "protected" are worried about the "guardians".

It is us (the middle-aged and elderly) who are worried about children, now.