Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

I didn’t make my point very well. I absolutely get the frustration over the difficulties some are facing getting tested, but it isn’t the fault of a few famous people who tested positive even though they aren’t showing symptoms. Positive tests are a good thing, not that they have it, but that it was caught. It helps to slow the spread of the disease and track its progress.

We should be frustrated. Our federal government dropped the ball on this and we are paying the price. Our society is mostly shut down, at least for a little while. Being stuck at home sucks. I just think some of the anger brought on by the situation is misdirected.

 

Didn’t say that, did I? I said I’m not going to freak out. I don’t look solely for the bad news and the worst-case scenarios to everything. I prepare for them, but don’t expect them. Being optimistic is a hell of a lot better way to live.

 

Yeah, he said his fever was gone this morning. But still, I can understand why he was freaked out.

 

Men account for 70% of coronavirus fatalities in Italy

 

If anyone needs is just desperate to see someone compete at something - anything - live two professional pool players are playing today and tomorrow on a Facebook live stream in their manager's basement while they quarantine. I can send a link over.

 

Of course. I do too. I'm a senior living with a senior wife who has asthma. I hear her cough at night, which she's done for like 30 years, and I can't go back to sleep for an hour.

 

As you watch these "press conferences," keep in mind we're getting everything we deserve.

 

Also, we have to realize that, for kids and people who work, being out of school and work, right now, probably still feels more like a damn welcomed vacation than "a quarantine." Maybe it won't feel that way in a few weeks or months. But right now, particularly if there are no confirmed cases near you?...

Elderly people, on the other hand, often already experience "social distancing" on a regular basis, either because of difficulties with health, mobility or driving issues, and are always having to fight being shut ins, and/or being bored or lonely, anyway. The days can get long, and they can get tired of watching TV, crocheting and reading (my 88-year-old mom's current regular activities), sometimes, even in the best of times.

Trips to the store, or library, or church, or lunches out with somebody, are often the highlights of their days, and lives. Truly. To be losing those things, seemingly long-term, and to have it going on when they feel fine and know of no one who is unwell with coronavirus can be, well, not easy.

As we're all apparently finding out right now.

 

We're still navigating the calm before the storm. Shit's fixing to get real, and we'll long for these uneasy days where nothing much was happening yet.

 

I'd say if you live in New York or California, shit has gotten pretty real already. No matter how much or little attention you pay to the news, you're not allowed to go outside except to exercise, buy food, or medicine. That's gotta get anyone to notice something's going down.