Adaptation to COVID world

I read the AARP magazine cover to cover for the first time. Yeah I avoided that for the longest time because it was a reminder of how OLD I was becoming. But after reading it, I realize there are loads of great stories about just people. There’s a nice article about long marriages (by Phile Donahue and Marlo Thomas) and another about Doris Goodwin and the Sox.

 

Easter church service was fun this morning. We were watching online, and the preacher straight up called out these churches that are continuing to meet and putting folks at risk.
I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've ever blurted out in the middle of a sermon, "Daaaaaaaaamn. He's getting saucy."

 

So, it's taken Coronavirus to make some realize it's time for Infrastructure Week?

 

It didn’t take much for the greatest economy in the world at its strongest point ever to come crashing to its knees.

 

It doesn't take much for any great machine to come crashing to its knees . . .

 

More than half the country stopped going to work and stopped spending money on anything but food and household supplies. No economy could survive that, let alone one built on consumer spending and service industries.

 

"I remember when I was a sportswriter, I covered an event that had 80,000 people in one stadium. It seems a thousand centuries ago. Those carefree events have been replaced by horror and moral terror."

 

Here's a woobie.

 

If I can't get pulled pork during this quarantine, I'll riot.

Smithfield shutting U.S. pork plant indefinitely, warns of meat shortages during pandemic

 

I might be misremembering this, but there were people at Kroger refusing to buy Smithfield because it was sold to a Chinese company and there was some question about the provenance of the meat. Some fish companies catch their fish here and send it to China to be processed, so it might be that Smithfield does that with their pork. I didn't ask the people who were talking about this, but I did look it up.

A quick search brought up this article:

Why Pork Pushed China To A Deal

This was late last year, so maybe things have changed. I would imagine people are even more reluctant to buy meat from China given the current state of things.