If anything, she'd handle shortages the ways she did World War II rations and shortages in her novels, i.e., serving whale in restaurants, the inevitable cauliflower cheese and baked beans on toast, the collected tins for a rainy day.
We could all learn some tips for coping with this crisis by reading her work.
She'd make entire novels out of toilet paper shortages and lack of hand sanitizer. She'd write them with a chuckle or two as well.
Pym new how to lighten one's load; even when she was ill and facing death, she wrote and wrote in A Very Private Eye.
Laughter is the best medicine, and Pym knew it. Humor was important to her, as it is to us. If you need some cheer and a boost, reread Pym, or watch online Miss Pym's Day Out, with Patricia Routledge. Above all, be well.
