Bobcat was back this morning, didn’t see it but heard it. Also saw a coyote when on my run. Nature doing what nature does, which is the message I’m choosing today to take from all of this. We have such a tendency to think we’re so special, but this is just how it works.
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Figure I’d drop this here. Pretty funny.
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BTW as I was out for the first time in a few days buying the dongle everyone is going about as normal. Most places actually seemed busier than usual. I tried my best to keep a good distance from people but most people were packed in tightly. Lots of old people out and about chatting nonchalantly to each other from about 10cm away. We really are fucked.
Asparagus goes on sale tomorrow at 99 cents per pound, if the flyer remains accurate. It was $3.99 over the winter.
How can I resist shopping?
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I’ll definitely be going to the grocery store at some point in the next couple weeks, possibly toward the end of next week. I’ll just get a few things, keep my distance from people, and use a hand wipe as soon as I get back to my car.
Yeah, I believe the window to buy electronics quickly closed around the first of the month, the places where all of this stuff is made have been shutdown for a while and I don’t believe have started up again.
Must suck to visit The Villages to see your parents
Visiting my mother requires going to a Villages type of place where it’s white people, American flags and deplorables. I feel ya.
I made this point about a week ago, but there’s not really a plan here. People are excited about companies and the government DOING SOMETHING, but there’s not exactly an endgame here. Ultimately, you either eliminate the disease, or it infects people until enough people are immune (from illness or vaccine) that it burns out. At this stage, it’s hard for me to see how the disease is completely eliminated.
A point that graph really underscores is that flattening the curve only matters if the peak doesn’t substantially exceed the care capacity. At some point, a big majority of cases aren’t going to get proper care no matter what you do.
I somewhat believe that the Netherlands and (initially) the UK had the right idea. Haphazard shutdowns are, perhaps, just public health theater. We’re just too far behind and too inept for me to believe that we can beat this thing.
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Don’t plug in random power generators. I destroyed an external HD doing that.
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Props to Cuomo for picking up the pace.
But what about other states? Are some of them not doing any testing at all?
My former flatmate was posting on Facebook about how dumb people were for freaking out about coronavirus in Spain.
He’s disappeared since those shit posts. Wonder why.
I think doing anything that buys time is the right play at the moment even if you don’t have an end game planned. If you go with the do nothing plan I think you will see what real panic looks like.
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The store: walk around for 15 minutes, avoid people, touch almost nothing except food, get out
The gym: spend an hour of heavy breathing around other people heavy breathing, touch all kinds of things - possibly while laying on your back where the virus can just do a swan dive in your mouth
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So 20% of known positives. But I’m sure there must be thousands of others infected.
Post a real source:
Agree with this. Plus, this shit works when people obey these policies and practice social distancing.
The number of new cases actually dropped yesterday compared to the day before here likely due to the countrywide quarantine.
That bobcat might have rabies or something. That’s not remotely normal behavior.
I’ve been hiking in the mountains for years and feel incredibly lucky to have seen one bobcat.
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Except the shopping carts/baskets and checkout machines that half the town has been handling. It’s that vs a treadmill that I sanitize before and after use and operate only with my knuckles, I’m carefully these days to use my fingertips as little as possible.
Save 'em for last, they’ll taste better when you’re hungry…
Denial
Anger
Bargaining ← You are here
Depression
Acceptance
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