This is exactly the opposite. Youngs are gonna be mindful and stay home, olds who think it’s a Fake News Hoax are gonna turn out. I don’t enjoy being disenfranchised by a one-two punch of a pandemic virus and a fundamentally broken democracy system that can’t get the absolute most basic shit figured out, but right now the moral calculus for me is I should stay home. Anyway it’s just a protest vote for my man Bernie at this point.
In other news, my mom has developed a mild cough over the past seven days, so that’s not so great. No fever but she says she never get fevers when infected so that’s a wash. No difficulty breathing, good spirits. Probably a common cold but obviously my jimmies are severely rustled. To add insult to injury, she’s been hyped to watch Contagion and she’s on the #1 spot at the library but now there’s no way she can go to the library now that she’s under self-quarantine so I am shipping her a surprise DVD via Amazon.
I think I have convinced her and dad to get groceries via a PeaPdod pickup service, which is a minor miracle given how high-tech that is for olds.
It was perhaps the most concrete and visible transition exercise that dealt with the possibility of pandemics, and top officials from both sides — whether they wanted to be there or not — were forced to confront a whole-of-government response to a crisis. The Trump team was told it could face specific challenges, such as shortages of ventilators, anti-viral drugs and other medical essentials, and that having a coordinated, unified national response was “paramount” — warnings that seem eerily prescient given the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
I spend a lot of time thinking about what-if scenarios that might never happen. Maybe it comes from being a poker player and thinking about all possible runouts multiple streets in advance. Or maybe I was attracted to poker because doing that level of thinking mattered. Other posters have criticized my asking questions about improbable possibilities. I can say that I do such things because I am the opposite of Trump as described in that article.
My Boomer parents with underlying health conditions are just adamant they must go shopping tomorrow morning, and they’re saying it in a way that makes me think they have no intention of not going to get “milk and fresh produce” weekly indefinitely.
Yep. My wife and I have been careful. Our parents have not (my mom is stuck home with a broken ankle so not much choice, but her mom went to church and a book club today). And my kids are pretty freaked and very worried about their grandparents.
Good news is my mom had a long and illustrious career in the NBA, so she’s definitely getting tested for COVID-19 as we speak and I can stop worrying soon because that’s how we do in USA#1.
Well I’m still at work at an open restaurant in San Diego, although I might actually be dead and in purgatory I have no fucking idea what is going on right now it is so bizarre. The only people coming in are on a vacation they didn’t cancel, here for a birthday, or they have coronavirus. Like I am just walking around in shock that I’m actually at work still. I have to beg my coworkers to do their jobs, everyone including the managers is standing around in the back talking. They didn’t even turn on the patio lights like nobody who worked there besides me was outside for like a half hour as the sun was going down it’s fucking weird rn guys. Please mayor Kevin falconer put me out of my misery lol
