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shadowkatI tried the pharmacy today, and after about fifteen minutes, gave up.
It was actually worse than this - I gave up when people came towards me with no masks, and a guy was sitting behind me with his N97 mask hanging around his neck. I thought okay...I don't really need anything that badly, I'm going home. Also I knew it was going to rain soon. And guess what? It is raining now.
[ETA: Found out later that the tent were for free COVID-19 antibody testing, that had been arranged by the community for this area. It was from 8am to 5pm today, I didn't know about it until I got home and someone on the neighborhood Kesington Facebook Page announced it.]
But this begs the question - I've been asking myself off and on all week - am I the only person who is still afraid of the virus?
[ETA: Apparently the deaths in NYC have dropped to 0? I don't know about the source. I checked the NY Government site and can't find it. Wiki on Google states it though. Good news. (Except I know for a fact that they aren't tracking all the deaths - so this is the confirmed ones in the hospital.) Although according to the Governor, 42 people passed away due to COVID-19, down from a record-high when 800 died in a single day just eight weeks ago.)
Crazy Organization
Apparently not. My other manager/friend, J, who also happens to be black, called me - after I sent her an email to see if she was okay. (I've decided to check in on my black co-workers and friends this week. They are all fine - better than I am, actually. None are protesting - of the ones that I talked to and responded. Granted two didn't respond to my email/text, but I'm hoping they are okay as well.) J is more worried about the virus than anything else.
Crazy organization has sent emails to all of the managers requesting that they volunteer to give out PPE (hand sanitizer/masks) across twenty three stations out on Long Island and in the City. They are supposed to set up a PPE station, and hand stuff out to the customers who request them. J has not volunteered and doesn't think we should be doing it. Also it's expensive - we can't afford it - where's all the money going to come from?
J ranted about this for about fifteen minutes. I kept trying to talk about the protests or other things - but this was her main concern. She's also terrified about being sent back to work - apparently they are considering sending some of the managers back. Also she has her own office. It's not her office she's concerned about - it's getting to her office. I can identify - that's why I don't see them sending most of us back. She can't drive there - no parking. Trains - not really possible to social distance on trains, and according to those who've taken them? The trains now have a person in every row. So...where are we putting additional people? And what about the jerks who aren't taking the virus seriously? Have the police help you with them? Uhm, that didn't go over all that well during the stay at home phase.
(It's very interesting to work for a public transportation agency during a pandemic, you would not believe the issues that come up - and how complex this situation truly is. Add to that civil unrest and protests. Honestly one of the worst possible times to have protests and civil unrest is during a pandemic. Yet, I know why it is happening now. People are fed up. They've been cooped up for three months, and a lot of them are dead broke and struggling. Plus they got to deal with the threat of police violence. I kind of saw this coming a mile away. But it does pose interesting issues for a public transportation system struggling to keep running and working during a pandemic.)
Speaking of Crazy Workplace...I had a lengthy discussion about comic books over Microsoft Teams with one of my project managers.
He had his video on - and it looked like he was in a storage closet with files at work.
ME: Where are you?
Project Manager: My second office.
ME: Looks like a storage closet-
PRoject Manager: Oh this? I collect comic books.
Me: Cool! I love comic books.
[He lives in the suburbs with his wife, and now his daughter who recently returned home. His wife is working out of the living room. No one has left the property. He leaves work by going downstairs, and sits on an outdoor sofa on his lawn and he's home. I just take my laptop from my desk to the armchair - and I'm home. It's a quicker commute.]
He collects comics and sells them on E-Bay, also sells them for other people. He sold a mint-condition Incredible Hulk, issue #1 for a friend of his at well over $250,000 on E-bay. An X-man #9 on E-bay went for $95,000. He showed me a Captain America #1 in a glass encasement, an Avengers #1 also in glass encasement, and an Amazing Spiderman #1 in glass encasement.
We had a lengthy chat about the selling of vintage comics. And collecting them. We also discussed the procurement of a security assessment, which was the reason for his call. I didn't grace him with a video of myself. I do not do video chatting.
Fighting with People on Social Media is Exhausting
Meanwhile - because I'm frustrated at work, and easily distracted, I got into heated debates with people on social media. Yes, I know, it's a bad idea.
One was with two "entitled" rich white guys on Twitter, who kept twisting my words, and had twisted the Governor of New York's words to make themselves look cool and progressive. One of which I have met in person and frigging knows better (Buffannatator aka Rob), who lives in the frigging UK and isn't even in NYC at the moment. Both kept twisting what the Governor of NY stated out of context - I watched the Governor's Briefing, and I know what he said - and that's not what he meant. People do this all the frigging time - they take one sentence out of a paragraph - and interpret it with their own meaning. Folks - that's a horrible debate tactic and it is poor reading comprehension. Context is everything. Words, phrases, sentences change their meaning when provided out of context. You lose things like tone, etc.
I was so furious, my hands shook. I had to take a CBD to get them to stop.
I was also reminded of why I hate Twitter. People take things out of context and use them to inflame other's emotions. It's like a news propaganda site from hell.
[BTW - the irony of me, of all people, defending the Governor of NY is not lost on me. Go back to posts written last year at this time - and you will see a different story. I was railing at him back then. Now, I think he is doing his best in an impossible situation and kind of making logical sense. Granted, I'm comparing him to the Mayor and the Doofus...and that's ..well...]
Then, over on FB, I had a far more reasonable discussion with the opposite side of the argument. Which was odd. Since I technically was in political agreement with the smug self-righteous assholes on Twitter. I kept my temper here and it was far more civil. FB tends to be - generally speaking - more civil than Twitter. I'm not quite sure why. This guy's problem was, a)he no longer lived in NYC so had no idea what was going on outside of the news, and b)he was a white guy who lived in the suburbs and liked the police, and had never suffered any fear or problems at their hands (hello, white guy).
There's two extremes at war:
Side One - Hates the police and wants to do away with them entirely. Forget racism or anti-black systematic injustice - let's just defund and do away with the police. That will solve everything! (And yet apparently they don't care that we still have guns and a military? Guessing they skipped logic in school? Or that the police help fight against "hate crimes"? I mean I get your issues and agree - but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater folks. We still need the baby, it may be a stinky, whiny, difficult baby - but we need the frigging baby.)
Side Two -- Believes the protestors are all rioting, and should be imprisoned for terrorism and are burning the city to the ground. (Despite all evidence to the contrary.) And we should respect the police no matter what. "Just turn on your tv!" (Well actually the tv is the problem. Perhaps you should turn off the tv? It's relatively easy to manipulate footage and twist things to fit a political agenda. Hello, proganda and guerilla marketing tactics 101. Am I the only person who read 1984 and studied this stuff in school? I mean I saw NY1 do it - and they are a news source that I trust. I also saw The Hill do it, and the New Times. Reporters are human beings they are not beyond misinterpreting and misreporting things. Dig deeper.)
ME to both of them, "we need to think critically here. The protests have been mainly peaceful. Is there looting - yes, but it's not as widespread as you believe. The entire city is not on fire. I live in the city - I know it's not on fire. My area is fine. 98% of Brooklyn is fine. The vast majority of Manhattan, Queens, Harlem and The Bronx are fine. My friends went on protests there - it's been fairly peaceful. The violence isn't as prevalent as the media paints it as being. (The media is bored of the Coronavirus and likes hyperbole and riling people up - the media needs to be spanked. I already spanked NY1. I see it again - I'll write them.). Do not let the media tell you what to think."
This kind of fell on death ears. When emotion is involved, logic goes whirling out the window. It's impossible to discuss anything with an angry person.
Sigh.
New York, The Protestors & Human Rights Advocacy
The Governor meanwhile has proposed an act entitled "Say Their Names" with four cornerstone's :
The 'Say Their Name' Reform agenda includes:
1. Allow for transparency of prior disciplinary records of law
enforcement officers by reforming 50-a of the civil rights law;
2. Banning chokeholds by law enforcement officers;
3. Prohibiting false race-based 911 reports and making them a crime; and
4. Designating the Attorney General as an independent prosecutor for
matters relating to the deaths of unarmed civilians caused by law
enforcement.
It's a start. I want more of course. If it were up to me, we'd ban all guns in this country, but it's not up to me. Getting people to give up their guns is akin to telling a guy - you are cutting off his dick. It ain't happening.
And dear god, the stuff on the news about the protests in New York are painful, sickening even - but it's not what I've seen friends post nor in my area. Much like the virus, it appears to be something happening that I'm being shown on the news but not seeing outside of it. The worst of these, of course, is the 76 year old man who was assaulted by police, and then left bleeding on the sidewalk as they walked by. None of them stopping to help him. The Governor in his speech today stated he was sickened by the video, and stated that he has informed the police repeatedly that everything they do will be captured on video. Honestly, it will - we live in the tech age, where everyone has a two-three camera video lense on their phones. And half the twenty-somethings have degrees in documentary filmmaking. (A fun and higher paying way of doing human right advocacy - documentaries. Art and documentaries are easy ways to be a human rights advocate, although less effective. People can ignore documentaries and art.)
270 people were arrested in New York last night. Over twenty thousand protesting in NYC, and over a thousand in Long Island, and more across the state. They even arrested a delivery man - not clear on why, been informed that it wasn't while doing his job. This is all according to the news, not outside sources. So reliability? Eh.
We have more protests planned for today and the rest of the weekend. And severe thunderstorms, and nasty weather coming our way.
There are people in my neighborhood standing out on the corner of Hamilton Parkway and McDonald Avenue, banging things, staying six feet apart (I don't know how they'll do that - that's the walkway to the Cemetery - it's not that wide), and wearing masks. They may not do it tonight - they did it the last few nights - because apparently someone dug up part of the sidewalk. I'm thinking the gas piping group has come back.
As I told my boss, I'm not protesting - I'm still afraid of the virus. I won't stop being afraid of the virus - until I get enough information to know that I'm safe. It's not death in of itself that scares me, so much as the pain of suffocating to death alone in my apartment with no help or aid. Living alone can be frightening especially during a pandemic, where society feels like it is crumbling around you.
My cousin told me I was not the only one still afraid of it. My cousin had it, and recovered. My cousin doesn't live alone. And her parents are nearby. I, on the other hand, am not near anyone. The closest is my friend Wales who is a twenty minute train ride away. My family are much further.
It's hard to explain what it is like to live alone in NYC at this time. You either get it or you don't. I guess.
I wish I could protest. I wish I could march. Scream and chant. Raise my fist. Make noise. But I can't. I'm too scared of the virus. And I'm keeping my anxieties in check by a mere thread.
Miscellaneous
Didn't really get much of a walk in. And I think after 47 days of waffling that my period may be coming? I'm sipping a Lime Tequila Margritta - that came in a can courtesy of Foodkick. Cheaper and easier than buying all the ingredients, also less sugar and alcohol.
Watching cartoons on The Disney Plus channel - at the moment "Wolverine and the X-men", one of the better animated of the Marvel cartoons. It's close to what they were doing with Justice League. The writing is about the same - except I have issues with how they've developed and written Cyclops. (But I always do. I've yet to see an animated or live action film that handles that character well.)
And trying not to let the world outside get to me, too much. I realized today that I have not been on a subway, car or any means of transportation since March. Nor have I walked further than Prospect Park or Greenwood Cemetery. Co-worker today said it was the end of week twelve of our confinement. And there doesn't appear to be an end in sight.
In two weeks, I will have to brave the subways for a doctor's appointment, hopefully blood work, and COVID testing as well. I am hunting more masks.
It's more compulsive than anything else.
Anyhow, tomorrow my desk chair shows up. I think. Hopefully it will be fully assembled as advertised. Fingers crossed. Also that it will work and solve some of my problems. Then I got to figure out what to do with the other desk chair. Small issues, I know. Embarrassingly small.
I miss being close - physically to other people - without fear. I wonder sometimes when that will change. That fear.
Anyhow, I leave you with a sunset..it was taken on my birthday at the exact time I was born - in Costa Rica in 2017. An enlarged photo of it hangs in my apartment, it is the only picture hanging on my apartment walls.
It was actually worse than this - I gave up when people came towards me with no masks, and a guy was sitting behind me with his N97 mask hanging around his neck. I thought okay...I don't really need anything that badly, I'm going home. Also I knew it was going to rain soon. And guess what? It is raining now.
[ETA: Found out later that the tent were for free COVID-19 antibody testing, that had been arranged by the community for this area. It was from 8am to 5pm today, I didn't know about it until I got home and someone on the neighborhood Kesington Facebook Page announced it.]
But this begs the question - I've been asking myself off and on all week - am I the only person who is still afraid of the virus?
[ETA: Apparently the deaths in NYC have dropped to 0? I don't know about the source. I checked the NY Government site and can't find it. Wiki on Google states it though. Good news. (Except I know for a fact that they aren't tracking all the deaths - so this is the confirmed ones in the hospital.) Although according to the Governor, 42 people passed away due to COVID-19, down from a record-high when 800 died in a single day just eight weeks ago.)
Crazy Organization
Apparently not. My other manager/friend, J, who also happens to be black, called me - after I sent her an email to see if she was okay. (I've decided to check in on my black co-workers and friends this week. They are all fine - better than I am, actually. None are protesting - of the ones that I talked to and responded. Granted two didn't respond to my email/text, but I'm hoping they are okay as well.) J is more worried about the virus than anything else.
Crazy organization has sent emails to all of the managers requesting that they volunteer to give out PPE (hand sanitizer/masks) across twenty three stations out on Long Island and in the City. They are supposed to set up a PPE station, and hand stuff out to the customers who request them. J has not volunteered and doesn't think we should be doing it. Also it's expensive - we can't afford it - where's all the money going to come from?
J ranted about this for about fifteen minutes. I kept trying to talk about the protests or other things - but this was her main concern. She's also terrified about being sent back to work - apparently they are considering sending some of the managers back. Also she has her own office. It's not her office she's concerned about - it's getting to her office. I can identify - that's why I don't see them sending most of us back. She can't drive there - no parking. Trains - not really possible to social distance on trains, and according to those who've taken them? The trains now have a person in every row. So...where are we putting additional people? And what about the jerks who aren't taking the virus seriously? Have the police help you with them? Uhm, that didn't go over all that well during the stay at home phase.
(It's very interesting to work for a public transportation agency during a pandemic, you would not believe the issues that come up - and how complex this situation truly is. Add to that civil unrest and protests. Honestly one of the worst possible times to have protests and civil unrest is during a pandemic. Yet, I know why it is happening now. People are fed up. They've been cooped up for three months, and a lot of them are dead broke and struggling. Plus they got to deal with the threat of police violence. I kind of saw this coming a mile away. But it does pose interesting issues for a public transportation system struggling to keep running and working during a pandemic.)
Speaking of Crazy Workplace...I had a lengthy discussion about comic books over Microsoft Teams with one of my project managers.
He had his video on - and it looked like he was in a storage closet with files at work.
ME: Where are you?
Project Manager: My second office.
ME: Looks like a storage closet-
PRoject Manager: Oh this? I collect comic books.
Me: Cool! I love comic books.
[He lives in the suburbs with his wife, and now his daughter who recently returned home. His wife is working out of the living room. No one has left the property. He leaves work by going downstairs, and sits on an outdoor sofa on his lawn and he's home. I just take my laptop from my desk to the armchair - and I'm home. It's a quicker commute.]
He collects comics and sells them on E-Bay, also sells them for other people. He sold a mint-condition Incredible Hulk, issue #1 for a friend of his at well over $250,000 on E-bay. An X-man #9 on E-bay went for $95,000. He showed me a Captain America #1 in a glass encasement, an Avengers #1 also in glass encasement, and an Amazing Spiderman #1 in glass encasement.
We had a lengthy chat about the selling of vintage comics. And collecting them. We also discussed the procurement of a security assessment, which was the reason for his call. I didn't grace him with a video of myself. I do not do video chatting.
Fighting with People on Social Media is Exhausting
Meanwhile - because I'm frustrated at work, and easily distracted, I got into heated debates with people on social media. Yes, I know, it's a bad idea.
One was with two "entitled" rich white guys on Twitter, who kept twisting my words, and had twisted the Governor of New York's words to make themselves look cool and progressive. One of which I have met in person and frigging knows better (Buffannatator aka Rob), who lives in the frigging UK and isn't even in NYC at the moment. Both kept twisting what the Governor of NY stated out of context - I watched the Governor's Briefing, and I know what he said - and that's not what he meant. People do this all the frigging time - they take one sentence out of a paragraph - and interpret it with their own meaning. Folks - that's a horrible debate tactic and it is poor reading comprehension. Context is everything. Words, phrases, sentences change their meaning when provided out of context. You lose things like tone, etc.
I was so furious, my hands shook. I had to take a CBD to get them to stop.
I was also reminded of why I hate Twitter. People take things out of context and use them to inflame other's emotions. It's like a news propaganda site from hell.
[BTW - the irony of me, of all people, defending the Governor of NY is not lost on me. Go back to posts written last year at this time - and you will see a different story. I was railing at him back then. Now, I think he is doing his best in an impossible situation and kind of making logical sense. Granted, I'm comparing him to the Mayor and the Doofus...and that's ..well...]
Then, over on FB, I had a far more reasonable discussion with the opposite side of the argument. Which was odd. Since I technically was in political agreement with the smug self-righteous assholes on Twitter. I kept my temper here and it was far more civil. FB tends to be - generally speaking - more civil than Twitter. I'm not quite sure why. This guy's problem was, a)he no longer lived in NYC so had no idea what was going on outside of the news, and b)he was a white guy who lived in the suburbs and liked the police, and had never suffered any fear or problems at their hands (hello, white guy).
There's two extremes at war:
Side One - Hates the police and wants to do away with them entirely. Forget racism or anti-black systematic injustice - let's just defund and do away with the police. That will solve everything! (And yet apparently they don't care that we still have guns and a military? Guessing they skipped logic in school? Or that the police help fight against "hate crimes"? I mean I get your issues and agree - but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater folks. We still need the baby, it may be a stinky, whiny, difficult baby - but we need the frigging baby.)
Side Two -- Believes the protestors are all rioting, and should be imprisoned for terrorism and are burning the city to the ground. (Despite all evidence to the contrary.) And we should respect the police no matter what. "Just turn on your tv!" (Well actually the tv is the problem. Perhaps you should turn off the tv? It's relatively easy to manipulate footage and twist things to fit a political agenda. Hello, proganda and guerilla marketing tactics 101. Am I the only person who read 1984 and studied this stuff in school? I mean I saw NY1 do it - and they are a news source that I trust. I also saw The Hill do it, and the New Times. Reporters are human beings they are not beyond misinterpreting and misreporting things. Dig deeper.)
ME to both of them, "we need to think critically here. The protests have been mainly peaceful. Is there looting - yes, but it's not as widespread as you believe. The entire city is not on fire. I live in the city - I know it's not on fire. My area is fine. 98% of Brooklyn is fine. The vast majority of Manhattan, Queens, Harlem and The Bronx are fine. My friends went on protests there - it's been fairly peaceful. The violence isn't as prevalent as the media paints it as being. (The media is bored of the Coronavirus and likes hyperbole and riling people up - the media needs to be spanked. I already spanked NY1. I see it again - I'll write them.). Do not let the media tell you what to think."
This kind of fell on death ears. When emotion is involved, logic goes whirling out the window. It's impossible to discuss anything with an angry person.
Sigh.
New York, The Protestors & Human Rights Advocacy
The Governor meanwhile has proposed an act entitled "Say Their Names" with four cornerstone's :
The 'Say Their Name' Reform agenda includes:
1. Allow for transparency of prior disciplinary records of law
enforcement officers by reforming 50-a of the civil rights law;
2. Banning chokeholds by law enforcement officers;
3. Prohibiting false race-based 911 reports and making them a crime; and
4. Designating the Attorney General as an independent prosecutor for
matters relating to the deaths of unarmed civilians caused by law
enforcement.
It's a start. I want more of course. If it were up to me, we'd ban all guns in this country, but it's not up to me. Getting people to give up their guns is akin to telling a guy - you are cutting off his dick. It ain't happening.
And dear god, the stuff on the news about the protests in New York are painful, sickening even - but it's not what I've seen friends post nor in my area. Much like the virus, it appears to be something happening that I'm being shown on the news but not seeing outside of it. The worst of these, of course, is the 76 year old man who was assaulted by police, and then left bleeding on the sidewalk as they walked by. None of them stopping to help him. The Governor in his speech today stated he was sickened by the video, and stated that he has informed the police repeatedly that everything they do will be captured on video. Honestly, it will - we live in the tech age, where everyone has a two-three camera video lense on their phones. And half the twenty-somethings have degrees in documentary filmmaking. (A fun and higher paying way of doing human right advocacy - documentaries. Art and documentaries are easy ways to be a human rights advocate, although less effective. People can ignore documentaries and art.)
270 people were arrested in New York last night. Over twenty thousand protesting in NYC, and over a thousand in Long Island, and more across the state. They even arrested a delivery man - not clear on why, been informed that it wasn't while doing his job. This is all according to the news, not outside sources. So reliability? Eh.
We have more protests planned for today and the rest of the weekend. And severe thunderstorms, and nasty weather coming our way.
There are people in my neighborhood standing out on the corner of Hamilton Parkway and McDonald Avenue, banging things, staying six feet apart (I don't know how they'll do that - that's the walkway to the Cemetery - it's not that wide), and wearing masks. They may not do it tonight - they did it the last few nights - because apparently someone dug up part of the sidewalk. I'm thinking the gas piping group has come back.
As I told my boss, I'm not protesting - I'm still afraid of the virus. I won't stop being afraid of the virus - until I get enough information to know that I'm safe. It's not death in of itself that scares me, so much as the pain of suffocating to death alone in my apartment with no help or aid. Living alone can be frightening especially during a pandemic, where society feels like it is crumbling around you.
My cousin told me I was not the only one still afraid of it. My cousin had it, and recovered. My cousin doesn't live alone. And her parents are nearby. I, on the other hand, am not near anyone. The closest is my friend Wales who is a twenty minute train ride away. My family are much further.
It's hard to explain what it is like to live alone in NYC at this time. You either get it or you don't. I guess.
I wish I could protest. I wish I could march. Scream and chant. Raise my fist. Make noise. But I can't. I'm too scared of the virus. And I'm keeping my anxieties in check by a mere thread.
Miscellaneous
Didn't really get much of a walk in. And I think after 47 days of waffling that my period may be coming? I'm sipping a Lime Tequila Margritta - that came in a can courtesy of Foodkick. Cheaper and easier than buying all the ingredients, also less sugar and alcohol.
Watching cartoons on The Disney Plus channel - at the moment "Wolverine and the X-men", one of the better animated of the Marvel cartoons. It's close to what they were doing with Justice League. The writing is about the same - except I have issues with how they've developed and written Cyclops. (But I always do. I've yet to see an animated or live action film that handles that character well.)
And trying not to let the world outside get to me, too much. I realized today that I have not been on a subway, car or any means of transportation since March. Nor have I walked further than Prospect Park or Greenwood Cemetery. Co-worker today said it was the end of week twelve of our confinement. And there doesn't appear to be an end in sight.
In two weeks, I will have to brave the subways for a doctor's appointment, hopefully blood work, and COVID testing as well. I am hunting more masks.
It's more compulsive than anything else.
Anyhow, tomorrow my desk chair shows up. I think. Hopefully it will be fully assembled as advertised. Fingers crossed. Also that it will work and solve some of my problems. Then I got to figure out what to do with the other desk chair. Small issues, I know. Embarrassingly small.
I miss being close - physically to other people - without fear. I wonder sometimes when that will change. That fear.
Anyhow, I leave you with a sunset..it was taken on my birthday at the exact time I was born - in Costa Rica in 2017. An enlarged photo of it hangs in my apartment, it is the only picture hanging on my apartment walls.
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Date: 2020-06-06 01:48 am (UTC)But this begs the question - I've been asking myself off and on all week - am I the only person who is still afraid of the virus?
My mom and I feel the same way. We live in the Seattle area and so many people are acting like the pandemic is over. I think that entire flattening the curve thing confused a lot of folks...like they think that because we peaked and came back down, we're out of the woods.
Instead of realizing the point was to slow down the spread of the virus so our hospitals don't get overwhelmed. The virus didn't magically go away. It's still out there. We're just trying not to all get it at the same time so if we have to go to the hospital, they don't run out of ventilators. As we continue to open up more and more in our area, I'm scared we're headed for a second big wave by the end of summer.
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Date: 2020-06-06 02:30 am (UTC)I agree. Also the virus has an incubation period of over a month. The people who were hospitalized in March and April, contracted the virus in January and February - new data has shown. NY didn't catch it until March 1 - because the CDC didn't let anyone test for it in NY. And Seattle had the same problem - there was a doctor in Washington who figured out that the virus was there long before the cruise ships arrived. But the CDC ignored her.
Now, they know the virus was around prior to that point and from China and elsewhere - that it has a long incubation period. So, we have all these people protesting and congregating in large groups - I'm betting the next wave of cases will pop up in July and August.
And yeah, I'm scared too. I keep fighting with my mother over the phone. She's doing stuff. Got my Dad a haircut. Went to discuss putting together a play today with three other ladies - although they did socially distance, and everyone has been under lock down...it worries me.
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Date: 2020-06-06 02:21 am (UTC)A neat idea and nice photo. Boy, that's a crowd alright at the pharmacy. I have no idea what people are thinking.
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Date: 2020-06-06 02:35 am (UTC)This crowd was to get tested for antibodies - and again - they couldn't find a way to do it safely? I also saw a woman at one of the tents, with her mask off helping someone, her mask was over her chin. (I saw it from a distance - I never got any closer than where you see the camera shot. I'm afraid of the virus. They may not be. But I am.)
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Date: 2020-06-06 02:23 am (UTC)it is the only picture hanging on my apartment walls.
An excellent choice.
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Date: 2020-06-06 02:43 am (UTC)Greenwood Cemetery is really the only place I don't have to worry that much about it. It's easier to avoid people. Although I did run into more people last Saturday, more than I'm used to, many without masks and in close contact. So I need to be careful where I go in the cemetery (avoid the main entrance and Park Slope entrances) and keep to certain time periods.
Might be hard to keep anything like a scarf on a baby in the heat we've been having... Do they even make light scarfs for women anymore? You can tell I'm a whiz at fashion!
Yes, on the scarves - I've seen them. I even have them. But she probably thinks the baby is immune or safe? There was misinformation on the virus and kids early on. Also, she may think it's not a good idea to put anything on the child's face? That said, people in my area have covered their babies. It's mixed. Some do, some don't.
And it's across humanity - I really can't say that one group, age range, race, etc wears masks and another doesn't - okay that's not true - the young like to avoid it.
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Date: 2020-06-06 03:36 am (UTC)I don't argue with people on social media. I block them the minute they start any shit with me. I don't have time or energy for stupid people.
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Date: 2020-06-06 03:42 am (UTC)It was dumb. I regretted it - on Twitter. Arguing on Twitter or doing anything on Twitter is kind of pointless. Facebook - it actually felt productive - I may not have changed his mind, but I think I got him to think a bit. And we were civil.
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Date: 2020-06-06 04:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-06-06 01:23 pm (UTC)I respected Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy) for leaving Twitter and going to Instagram, which is tamer and less brutal. She'd get attacked on Twitter all the time, and have things she said taken out of context.