Journal of the Plague...Week?

[icepixie]

I am alive, huddled in the bunker formerly known as my house with plenty of toilet paper and canned goods. My department started optional work from home for everyone on Friday, and most are taking the option, including me. Outside of work, I'm spending a lot of time reading covid-19 news articles, because despite the horror, it is rather fascinating.

It's been forever since I posted, so I won't even try to update everything. To be honest, there isn't all that much to update. I'm still skating, although I've bailed on the local April competition that the club is still, bafflingly, planning to hold. They have at least acknowledged that if they have to cancel, they'll give refunds. My epidemiologist boss expects large gatherings to be verboten until at least July, so at this point I'm actually more worried about the August competition.

I fell in love with Grace and Frankie over Christmas, and actually started nudging at a fic, in fits and starts. If events calm down, I may even get back to working on it.

That's really kind of it. I'm more active on Facebook these days, cesspool though it can be, so if anyone wants to be friends there, let me know!

Comments

[graycardinal]

1. Good to see the update, even/especially of the "all is normal" sort.

2. July? Argh. So I should probably start rescheduling the Shakespeare Festival theater tickets I reserved for the whole first week of June....

3. Fic from this quarter flowers slowly, although I have also acquired a new fandom (Miraculous Ladybug) that may yield a snippet or two ere long.

4. I regret that I am among the league of permanent anti-Facebook holdouts, and must therefore hope that the intermittent updates Over Here will continue.

[ricochetgo]

Hi there. I'm sitting at home as well. I am in the high-risk group, as I'm over 60 and also have taken corticosteroids for over 20 years. I don't know what things are like there, but here the schools closed a couple weeks ago and all nonessential businesses have been closed, even churches (although legally they can't do that). There's only medical facilities, gas stations, and grocery stores open. If seen driving, the police can stop you and talk (but not arrest anybody just yet). I share a house with my brother and sister-in-law (who is an in-home caregiver) and now her 11-year-old grandson, as the schools are out. Some places are worse than this, isolation-wise. I'd rather have isolation than another hospital stay. I was in the hospital twice last year with pneumonia.

Hope you can keep your spirits up. Also hope neither you nor any of yours gets sick.