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I had to read the Plague in its original French in high school. The first sign of the impending doom were dead rats hemorrhaging from their mouths laying in the street. Who cares about rats? But their fleas carrying the plague bacteria needed a new host and soon made their home on humans..and everything snowballed.
A week ago we were in an innocent bubble. No cases in Michigan, just on the coasts particularly in the Seattle area, which impacts my in-laws a great deal. On Sunday I visited a friend in a large rehab facility. I mistakenly went to the nursing home area first where I was asked about recent past foreign travel and whether I had a cough. No such questions in the rehab center. This place has since shut its doors to visitors.
Tuesday Steve and I had a joint dental appointment. His ended up taking way longer than mine (parents never feed your children soda; he has the worst teeth!) so I took a trip to the nearby Trader Joe's during a time in which the store is usually empty. Not so Tuesday. People were stocking up for the end of days. Toilet paper is being sold at extreme mark-ups now. Why do people hoard toilet paper? We go to vote. A woman fumbles in front of us in her purse for a pair of gloves which she dons to open the door but then she grabs a communal pen with bare hands once inside to fill out the necessary forms. I voted for the most likely person to unset the usurper, not necessarily my favorite.
Wednesday we are told that there are 2 Michigan corona positives, though not in our county. By Thursday, the number jumps to 12 and 2 of them are in our county, one of whom works out in the gym that Naomi goes to. Daycare centers are shut down. What are working parents to do? We hobbled together a care plan for Maya whose mom cannot telecommute (she is a prep cook)
The river cruise company has shut down until May 1st. We are set to cruise on May 7 but we can cancel at the last minute. We will see how well Germany and Austria handles this situation. Hopefully better than the usurper who said he knows more than the doctors and the scientists stable genius as he is. Meanwhile he and his family have been exposed, would it be wrong to wish he gets it?
During the SARS crisis of 2003 which started in an open market in Beijing selling infected bats (when will they learn !!!), the Chinese government called in the CDC for help and the whole mess was contained within Beijing, not infecting most of the world. Of course the CDC's budget has been severely cut (need that wall!) and now due to lots of bad decisions and wishful thinking, the virus is all over. No sports events, no concerts, I assume no movies in theaters..so many jobs will be lost and LIVES.
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Sigh.
There has been NO toilet paper in the stores here for over ten days. Hand sanitiser ditto. And the panic has spread to rice and pasta.
Very mixed messages over here.
And a lot of worry.
I think the defining moment came when the orange con, wearing his pink tie said "Maybe it will miraculously disappear." My thought was "Well, we're effed." He was exposed while playing golf in Mir-a-largo. Others who where there have already tested positive. Maybe that's the miracle.
He was in an enclosed room with the infected. If he confined his exposure to out on the course, he might have been safe. And last night, after his disjointed, lie infested speech, he continued to glad hand everyone near him though one official did the elbow bump instead, which pissed him off. Rules don't apply to him as he is invincible. He is allegedly a germ-phobe yet insists on touching people.
As for the pink tie, I remember it matched his pink circles around his eyes that are in contrast to the orange face.
our Gov has closed restaurants except for take out, libraries have closed, receiving phone messages and emails that all my Dr. appts. have been cancelled, emails all day long about closures, and now schools are closed till April 28th. Kansas has closed schools till next year. Kris
I think schools will be closed to the rest of the year everywhere though no announcement has been made. Some states. notably Florida have yet to take this seriously.
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