I thought those were your skivvies at first.
Interesting choice…
I’m about to start selling facemask. Capitalism!!
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I have a few. My one sis in law made that one and a bunch of others for the whole family.
She knows me and my favorite beverage very well.
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I have made some for my family but they only got recycled fabric…lol
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No, I prefer to just inhale the particles in their organic state. Strengthens the immune system that way 
Just don’t sweep the floor!
My brother is no longer symptom-free, but he’s still doing fine and remains quarantined in the basement. His wife got a test and tested negative, which was a big surprise. He’s usually fine in the mornings and then gets hit with symptoms in the afternoon. Headaches and fever seem to be the ones he mentions most. Going on two-and-a-half weeks of symptoms now, but hopefully he’s out of the woods.
I also learned today that I’ll be working from home for at least the next month and likely through July if we continue to follow the guidelines laid out by our governor today. I’m not upset by that at all, but rather the implications it holds.
I’m not sure how to feel about the new guidelines, but they seem excessive to me. Bars won’t re-open until July but “restaurants” can open sooner? We’re upending our lives, livelihoods and economy to prevent what alternative outcome, exactly?
If Maine for the last month hasn’t been “good enough”, what does “good enough” look like for Maine? Even more terrifying, what does it look like for the rest of the country? Our cases have been fairly concentrated in a few locations, our land is vast and our people are not stacked on top of each other. If we can’t get back to business while practicing reasonable distancing guidelines, who can, and when?
I’m very concerned right now. Very little help is making its way to many people who need it, and who is going to be left to patronize these businesses in July?
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Facebook is a lively place right now. I’m watching political mobilization on a scale that’s significant at the Maine level in real time. People are mad, and its not just the bar owners.
Some of my friends will probably be on the news soon.
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It looks like we might be going the same route. I don’t get it…like, what’s the difference?
They’ve also said when restaurants reopen people need to stay 6ft apart. Who the hell’s gonna do that, haha.
I’m glad your brother is doing okay.
I wonder this, too. We’ve been shut down pretty tightly since very early on. I think our kids stopped school before New York’s did, and we’ve become unfriendly to people from population-dense places.
I know that the politicians and public health officials are not actually after keeping individuals alive, but rather in having a controlled burn. A nice, steady trickle of deaths. And I can respect that, sort of. I get it. There’s a deadly disease and if it burns out of control bodies will be piled in the streets. If we try to avoid it entirely we eventually starve in our cozy homes.
All that to say, I’m with you. Cuomo keeps talking about “attractive nuisances” that draw people from hot spots to better-off places and I believe my state and yours exemplify that idea. “Let me get out of my disease-ridden city and go where the air is fresh and the land is vast and they have that adorable diner we love on Route 25.”
I have very mixed feelings about all of it.
Meanwhile, I’ve been working a condensed 4 day schedule, usually 10-4 (with a lunch break) and I feel like crying every time I think about going back to the alarm clock and commutes and 11 hour days and dinners and lunches I prep on Sundays, making the weekends pretty much one long chore event.
We’ve been good about going to bed around the same time as always, so I wake up whenever I want, relish how warm and comfortable my bed is, goof off and do yesterday’s work paperwork if necessary, then work out. My workouts are going great, because I’ve got plenty of time to do whatever I want before getting ready for work and commuting to the corner of the bedroom. After work there’s plenty of time to cook dinner with the husband, who’s furloughed. It’s been idyllic, except for all of the suffering around me and the fears of worse to come.
I keep trying to wrap my head around the idea of a “global depression,” or even around the idea that when my husband was furloughed on March 24th (20% pay reduction on March 9th) it marked the end of his working career. Hopefully not! But the thought is certainly there. He’s a biomedical engineer who works on research machines that are NOT the sort you use for vaccine research. Will universities still get the grants that allow them to buy the incredibly expensive equipment he does work on? I worry that as everything turns weird and bad economically mental health benefits will be cut, and my career will shrivel up and die.
It’s just all been such a rollercoaster.
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Not sure if this is comforting, but I live in the world of smart people who move family office money around to plan for the “next thing”.
The general consensus is a “V” shaped recovery – some areas, like oil and gas, lagging due to non Wuhan-related issues (Russia and Saudi dumping to harm domestic US oil). Huge amounts of money (trillions) are being deployed to buy stuff cheaply and hit the ground before the next guy.
I kind of liken it to a hurricane. Everything stops. Things are destroyed. But then the rebuilding starts and it’s different, but fresh and new, with the old stuff that was just holding on, making way for the new. And a year later, you’d never know it happened.
Long way of saying, the people that make a living being right about these things believe there’s going to be plenty of work to go around for smart people (and not so smart people) with good work ethics. It’s going to be very busy.
Doesn’t help with the tears about getting back to the grind. Because it’s going to be an intense grind.
But I wouldn’t be too worried about a pay check.
Also, Cuomo is an idiot.
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This is an uncommon opinion. It seems to be an "in’ thing to rave about the Cuomos.
My buddy and I grew up in NYC way back when, and he has a great memory for the old days. “Vote for Cuomo, not the homo.” was a Cuomo campaign slogan when Mario ran against Ed Koch. Let the modern day liberal Cuomo worshippers chew on that one…
Eh, in the real world I’m sure that’s true. Here, in the great bucolic nowhere? Who knows.
You’re right that everything rights itself eventually, and humans (along with rats and roaches) are remarkably adaptable. Still.
The world of people who move family office money around to plan for the next thing generally lands on its feet. While my world is populated with small people whose intelligence and resources vary wildly, and so will their outcomes.
He’s a repetitive self-serving politician, and also the guy making decisions for the big city just down the road.
Am I gloomy today? Wow, maybe. In my COVID 19 news, I sat in front of my computer for six Zoom therapy sessions today.
You might need a session yourself!
The verbatim is blurry, but I remember this lady say that even (especially) therapists need a therapist.
Smart lady!
I’ve done a couple of those zoom things for the kiddos schooling and stuff and whoa boy. I’m a face to face, in person- person.
This is the kiddo and his best friend in the world chasing ducks. They’ve been spending lots of time together doing stuff like this now.
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Cuomo’s dead.
And Koch was half a fag.
As much as I trust @Jewbacca 's long-term perspective on things, this is going to hurt BAD for a lot of people I know. It already has. I deal with businesses of nearly every size and scale you can imagine. I just spoke to a local printing company that’s wondering if it will survive a summer without it’s usual summer camp business. You’d be amazed at how many campers come to Maine, and you GOTTA have a summer camp shirt! Unless the governor say you can’t, of course.
If you consider a large number of people were still struggling when times were at their recent best, it only stands to reason that things aren’t improving any time soon. One rather disturbing trend I’ve seen is a lot more local girls selling nude pics rather casually. I’m not opposed to it in principle. I mean if they’re willing and you want to check out your old bartender or waitresses’ boobs, well, I guess things worked out okay for both groups.
Welcome to the new local economy, I suppose.
I think I just need to say this out loud to somebody. My son is 15, and for the last 5 days he has had a fever, headache and fatigue. The fever finally broke and he is feeling better so I an relieved, and believe he is on the mend. It’s just the three of us and he and my mom have not left our place (we live in the boondocks).
I have only gone out a handful of times since this thing started to do some yard work in town for a couple of my peeps and bring home supplies. I have taken every precaution like washing hands, wearing a mask taking a shower when I get home, no take out food etc… My county has only had 3 confirmed cases but they have only tested 23 people.
I know the possibility of him getting “it” is extremely slim, but I am still very concerned about his symptoms. Since he is rarely sick and this is an unusual event my brain says to treat it as if he has the virus and stay home. The whole better safe than sorry thing. My peeps, who are all elderly, think I am overreacting and they want to get on with life as usual.
Am I overreacting or is it better to be safe than sorry?
What’s the downside to the precautions?
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When other people are at risk it’s usually better to be safe than sorry, but- are/were these the only symptoms? Though for the record, I wouldn’t want to give anybody any kind of bug-but it certainly happens.
It could be a few other things too. There are some nasty bugs still in circulation.
My kiddo had a nasty 24 hr. thing last week. It looked bad at first. Typucal Flu like symptoms, etc. Then literally overnight it passed.
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My peeps are getting frustrated because they are ready for me come back. There are things to do! Surprisingly the most impatient ones had a lung transplant!