Voicelessness and Emotional Survival > Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board
Coronavirus
Hopalong:
I recently sold my ancient, reliable, lovable CRV, Lighter.
When I got the amazing lucky Prius (for a ridiculously low amount) I gradually began driving it all the time, not loving the ride or feel as much as the CRV, but finding the low-fuel impossible to pass up.
Anyway, I too left my CRV unstarted way too long and it died -- battery etc. I finally realized it made no moral or economic sense for my life, for me to have two vehicles. I would space out for too long and forget again.
Glad yours is okay!
Hops
lighter:
Mask, splash guard, and gloves in place I went to Aldi's (for milk) and Lowes for Preen weed preventative, seeds and some plants. I've never had any luck growing tomato plants from seeds and I'm not doing that now, for any reason so bought 3 kinds of cherry tomato seedlings.
It's going to rain so will get the Preen down now.
I did want to say there were what appeared to be 4 guards outside the Best Buy. At Lowes they had a stupid line for the outdoor plant section that made zero sense. It didn't tell you where to walk, inside the barrier or outside and so I had to walk it twice bc there was no one in line to show me where to go and the lady who told me to get into the non-existent line didn't think I needed to go to the right place. Oh well.
They shut down access to the indoor building and things weren't perfect but I found everything I needed (seeds are INSIDE, plants are outside) I'm not complaining. Everyone is understaffed and doing their best, I'm sure.
There were marked places to stand at checkout and constant reminders to stay 6 feet away from other shoppers over the loudspeaker. People DID stay away from each other. About half had masks on, some had gloves. One guy had a black ski mask, ball cap, and sunglasses on... looked like a bank robber but no one cared.
I carried sani wipes the entire time, constantly wiping down my gloves and what I picked up, the cart.... just made me feel better to DO something. When I got in the car I felt like I needed to move... to get up and out of the discomfort of maybe having coronavirus on my clothes, skin, in my hair.
I'm going to play in the dirt.
Lighter
sKePTiKal:
Our stay at home order was declared March 16.
It's been almost a month.
To date, the state has had 4 deaths from the virus - all nursing home residents or very ill elderly. Except for a handful of medium-sized cities, we have very little "urban" areas.
Life is going on out here "as normal". I got curious about the state's definition of "essential businesses" - and about the only things shut down are the social clubs (VFW and the like), schools, restaurants and the odd bowling alley or movie theater. (We don't even have many of those things out here.)
Most of the reported numbers by state (on average over all 50 of them) show that pretty much the 80-90% recovery rate that China was advertising has held true here. EVEN in urban areas. So, I'm thinking that this continued social distancing "mandate" is very much overdone.
I'm thinking some other things too; but that's not our focus here.
lighter:
So.... we've had our first shooting in the neighborhood. Someone shot INTO the home of a person living a couple hoods over. The post said there was a shot INTO her home the next day also.. this one hitting her dog in the head, but not killing it.
This was followed by what appeared to be passive-aggressive posts from people who felt it was very sad someone took the law into their own hands in a necessary attempt to quiet down barking dogs who had a view of the entire hood, barked at EVERYTHING and without any pause. These neighbors are named in their posts, have a view of everything going on and are engaging with the dog owner on the message board.
The dog owner wrote the bullet almost hit her son, which suggests to me the person pulling the trigger had a good scope and sent a very pointed message... terrifying, IMO. The owner went on to say anyone COULD have called her to talk to her about the problem, but didn't. It seemed like neighbors on both sides chimed in and I haven't checked to see how that's going today......
dogs are meant to bark
dogs shouldn't be allowed to bark non stop in populated areas ::shrug::
When Auntie H died, she'd been struggling/sobbing over not being able to sleep for months bc of a neighbor's dog barking all the time. She talked to that neighbor. She put foam insulation in her windows... her bedroom was dark all the time, she had to sleep sitting up bc of congestive heart failure AND she could barely eat..... not being able to sleep was torment and she died tormented bc a single neighbor gal didn't have the capacity to deal with her dog or consider her neighbors. I was very upset at that dog owner at the time. I felt the dog deserved a home where someone attended to it and could care for it better.
I've been on both sides of the problem and I DID feel responsible for quieting my barking dog. It was a problem. I worked at solving the problems. I didn't do it perfectly and one set of neighbors remained angry at me, despite my trying and worrying and dealing with the problem with occasional problems.
Two neighbors, the two I'd run to if the contractor showed up, were talking about having the ability to protect themselves and property if the worst case scenario happened. Are we at that point? They fear people running out of food, bc of lost jobs, breaking into their homes to take food and stuff, and having to KILL these people. We have a good safety net to feed people who can't feed themselves, IMO. I don't worry about that right now.
Guns are coming into the equation around here.
Lighter
Hopalong:
Don't feed the fear furnace.
Enough people are on the job.
M sent me an essay from The New Yorker today, about dogs worrying about their owners.
"I know, you're watching the fear box," one dog says.
That's what news is but more significantly, it's DEFINITELY what social media is.
Retreat, relax, stop reading.
hugs
Hops
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version