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Nikki Chaffin used to drive a big rig, but her immune system was compromised a few years ago when she contracted a nasty case of Lyme disease. Now, she stays home and dispatches while her husband, Jon Vance, hits the road.
Vance was in Illinois in his standard 53-foot box truck in January when the novel coronavirus was being predicted to hit the U.S. A few weeks later, he stopped home just long enough to drop off supplies. The couple devised their own sanitizing system.
"He comes to the door," Chaffin said. "I'm fully masked — double-masked with an N95 and a paper surgical mask, eye protection and gloves. He's sprayed with Lysol and puts the bags in the door. I pull him in and spray him again while I am gloved."
As the pandemic spreads, the fear of infecting loved ones who are at higher risk of succumbing to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has followed, injecting itself in every interaction.
That includes Vance's goodbye to Chaffin last month."He kissed me on the forehead and said, 'Now go alcohol that,'" she said.She doesn't expect to see him again until the coronavirus pandemic is over. He'll continue to live in his truck, which has a bed, a microwave and a refrigerator. Vance is…
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