A global pandemic may know no boundaries. But how you survive the upheaval may depend in large part on your paycheck. Two California families share their experience, two extremes in a region full of them.
In this Thursday, March 19, 2020, photo, Frankie Keenan shoots baskets with his daughter Rachel, 9, at their home in San Francisco. California's Bay Area has been shut down for more than a week, the first region of America to order its residents to stay home, work remotely and homeschool their children in a desperate bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
At their spacious, tidy 2-story home in a leafy San Francisco neighborhood, Rebecca Biernat is finding a new sense of sanity amid the disruption. Her husband, Frankie Keenan, a plumbing contractor, is considered an essential worker and still getting paid but also getting to spend more time at home. He’s more involved in the kids’ school work now.
“It was so horrible. I just started to cry. In that moment, I thought, ‘I have no work, no food, no money. How will I feed my family?’” says Bautista, 43. The family has always lived paycheck to paycheck, but in the absence of income they are piling up credit card debt. They don’t know how they will pay the $2,800 for their small two-bedroom apartment in South San Francisco, just outside the city limits.For Biernat, working from home has its challenges, but she maintains a sense of humor about it.
Time seems abundant now, for family bonding and to do things she never found time for before — yoga, meditation, cleaning the garage, sorting through the linen closet.
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