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lighter:
The lack of planning, medical safety gear and ability to test...... actually makes me feel a little shocky.
We haven't had any fist fights at the stores yet, but a lady filled her car with meat this morning, despite the 2 per customer limit, and was called out by another customer.
The lady said she had 3 people at home and she would take what she needed, which prompted the butcher to step from behind the counter. She promptly put the meats back when he asked her to do so.
I really like the limits. This way people can get something when they go to the store, which is what needs to happen. Everyone getting what they need.
Who has unlimited freezer room for a cartload of meat?
I sure don't.
Lighter
Meh:
Just tired that's all today. Slept too much, did too little. As usual I don't love my rental, definitely not a home but whatever. Maybe I will do some jumping jacks or something.
Hopalong:
I think being on your own in the geographical epicenter of all this in our country must be really hard, G...the number of cases in your state and near you must be so frightening.
Wish I could come over and brew you some tea.
The isolation and indoor-ness is really beginning to weigh down people. The anticipation of the surge is like walking around under a floating anvil that you know is going to drop but you don't know when or from how high.
Being indoors too long can breed depression; being alone and inactive can too. A lot of perky people recommend a zillion different forms of indoor exercise--hope if the jumping jacks don't do it some kinda calisthenics might.
Hang in there,
Hops
lighter:
A healthy happy friend suggests I go out into the early morning light... 6am light to allow those particular rays to hit my retinas. He said he reset his entire system, which I have to believe since he's lost over 50 lbs, kept it off and amassed a good deal of muscle weight. That's not easy to do at 60yo.
He's also a big fan of cold showers... as cold as the water will go, which engages the parasympathetic nervous system (turns off the fight or flight sympathetic nervous system)AND whatever else he was told it would do for him.
I'm feeling kind of..... stunned. I'd like to think I could start a journal, do a couple new things and not any changes, but I'm not committing to it.
What I am committing to is pulling weeds for a few hours. It's quiet today. No one is out. I think everyone's stunned.
Lighter
Meh:
Thanks Hops, Hi Lighter.
Not trying to complain, I am thankful, it does weigh down, it's heavy for a lot of people. I did go for a long walk today.
I've been pushing a lot of gloom and doom to everybody around me because I think if people are fearful they will be motivated to make safer choices. I think about relatives that I usually can't stand and I think about friends. I definitely think of myself as well.
It must have been about one week ago it was announced workers at Boeing were coming down with it and now they announced a death of a Boeing worker. It's hit numerous assisted living places now in many of the nearby cities.
We are literally waiting to see who dies. At least I am.
I'm a bit annoyed by people wanting the test. They should just self quarantine or they should know that something horrible has come over them. What can anybody really do? It's a desperate situation for anybody who gets it badly.
I want to read books but there's other stuff I'm supposed to be getting done.
So locally in WA state there was a community meeting of about 60 people, over half of the people ended up coming down with the virus. It's possible than more than one person at the meeting had it to begin with. This report does paint an extremely infectious picture though.
I also wonder about massing sick people together if it maybe is actually worsens their condition. Supportive care is the term they give to people dying of a terminal illness. I'm pretty sure when my grandfather had cancer they called it supportive care.
There is still a lot of willful ignorance happening too. I'm definitely not going to help in uplifting anybody. I've done customer service, I've done fake happy for years. I don't wish to apply fake happy to this because this is actually consequential.
All the dense cities will have problem because so many people so close together, beyond NY and LA there is Boston, Miami, Chicago, Philadelphia. Then as it reaches out into the smaller towns well their problem is they likely don't have a lot of intensivists and likely not good funding. One of the small mountain towns here in WA already had a case of a 35 year old man being moved along the emergency systems to a hospital in a slightly larger city nearby.
The center which is built is nothing more than a big roof so far. I guess they will have to put in portable potties.
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