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shadowkatToo blasted hot for a walk - it's about 96 degrees, feels like a 102 or walking through a windy sauna. Just a brief walk to the fruit and vegetable stand on the corner, opposite the pharmacy and subway stop - after fifteen minutes from my apartment was enough to suck the energy out of me and give me a mild headache. The air feels heavy, and I've been battling a sick sinus headache all day long. Also fatigue, I just want to sleep for some reason. Weirdly, I am sleeping well at night or well enough - I fall to asleep far more quickly now - due in part to my daily meditation practice.
Exchanged emails with Administrative Assistant/Research Clerk budding Farmer named after an archangel. She asked how I was doing...I'm never really certain how to respond to this question. I wasn't certain prior the pandemic, and now even less so. I guess "I'm okay" works best?
She's about the same. Edgy. Moody. Trapped. Wanting out. Trying to raise a vegetable garden in the heat - and without having enough time during the day to do it. She wishes she had my brother's life. I find myself envying others lives a lot lately, and a few are most likely those envying mine.
Mother also feels trapped. Father even more so. The Pandemic is playing havoc with my father's rapidly deteriorating mental state. And my mother doesn't know what to do about it. None of us do. It is what it is. We just try to take a day at a time and continue to tread water. And the days drag...at times.
New York vs. the Coronavirus
New York is still doing its darndest to beat back the virus, even if it has to fight the stupid federal government, take its show on the road to other pesky states, fight various idiots in its own state to do it. Discovering it has two major threats - one internal, one external, and a Federal Government which still has its collective head up its collective political ass, its taking its show on the road. Basically New York has given up on the Federal Government and has decided to fight the virus on its own.
Today, the Governor spoke from the airport - informing reporters that he was flying with his team to Savannah, GA with tests, a testing team, etc - to help Savannah combat the virus. Courtesy of Jetblue. (I thought he had his own plane - apparently I was wrong?).
Reporters: What about herd immunity? Does New York have it?
Governor: No. First of all to get herd immunity - you'd have to 50-76% of your population come down with it and recover. We don't have anywhere close. NYC is at 20%, at that's the highest we have. Also second, there's no factual evidence supporting that this exists or will work. Or that there is any immunity to the virus. Third, the countries who went that route have since then done a 180 degree turn away from it.
Reporters: Why are you personally flying down to Savannah?
Governor: I represent the people of the State of New York. I'm going as their representative.
Reporters: How can you help?
Governor (somewhat perturbed): I can add value - I've been through this crisis myself and can show them what to do, how to handle the hospital overflow, the test and tracing, etc. They've asked for our help and as I stated from the very beginning, NY didn't survive this alone, other states helped us - so we are paying it forward.
Then he went after the internal problem - which is the nitwits congregating in huge crowds around bars and restaurants over the weekend in the lower East Side of Manhattan and in Astoria, Queens. I saw the pictures and was flabbergasted. Why? Why would anyone want to stand in a huge crowd and drink alcohol? I don't understand doing it normally let alone during a pandemic.
Governor: I get it, you are young twenty-something superheros who want to party. But first of all, no, you are not immune to the virus. You can get it. And even if you don't get that sick - you could give it to someone else who could get sick. This is just stupid. Knock it off and stop being stupid.
I agree with him. I don't understand why people feel the need to party with seven hundred people. Ten or five, yes, maybe even twenty, but beyond that?
I prefer quiet outdoor places with no people. The area of the city that I live in isn't bad in that respect at least - it's not party central. Although it does try occasionally. Apparently on Sunday there was a top tier guitarist holding an outdoor concert on his front porch between Avenue C and Beverly on East 4th Street. I bet that attracted a small crowd. Not a big one though.
We've actually been pretty good about not congregating in my area. Then again, it was hit hard by the virus - which may or may not be the reason.
Anyhow..I'm tired, so signing off and leaving you with another photo of Mt. Rainer in Washington...(vacation in 2018..I wish it was 2018 right now, feeling oddly nostalgic for 2018 at the moment..)
Exchanged emails with Administrative Assistant/Research Clerk budding Farmer named after an archangel. She asked how I was doing...I'm never really certain how to respond to this question. I wasn't certain prior the pandemic, and now even less so. I guess "I'm okay" works best?
She's about the same. Edgy. Moody. Trapped. Wanting out. Trying to raise a vegetable garden in the heat - and without having enough time during the day to do it. She wishes she had my brother's life. I find myself envying others lives a lot lately, and a few are most likely those envying mine.
Mother also feels trapped. Father even more so. The Pandemic is playing havoc with my father's rapidly deteriorating mental state. And my mother doesn't know what to do about it. None of us do. It is what it is. We just try to take a day at a time and continue to tread water. And the days drag...at times.
New York vs. the Coronavirus
New York is still doing its darndest to beat back the virus, even if it has to fight the stupid federal government, take its show on the road to other pesky states, fight various idiots in its own state to do it. Discovering it has two major threats - one internal, one external, and a Federal Government which still has its collective head up its collective political ass, its taking its show on the road. Basically New York has given up on the Federal Government and has decided to fight the virus on its own.
Today, the Governor spoke from the airport - informing reporters that he was flying with his team to Savannah, GA with tests, a testing team, etc - to help Savannah combat the virus. Courtesy of Jetblue. (I thought he had his own plane - apparently I was wrong?).
Reporters: What about herd immunity? Does New York have it?
Governor: No. First of all to get herd immunity - you'd have to 50-76% of your population come down with it and recover. We don't have anywhere close. NYC is at 20%, at that's the highest we have. Also second, there's no factual evidence supporting that this exists or will work. Or that there is any immunity to the virus. Third, the countries who went that route have since then done a 180 degree turn away from it.
Reporters: Why are you personally flying down to Savannah?
Governor: I represent the people of the State of New York. I'm going as their representative.
Reporters: How can you help?
Governor (somewhat perturbed): I can add value - I've been through this crisis myself and can show them what to do, how to handle the hospital overflow, the test and tracing, etc. They've asked for our help and as I stated from the very beginning, NY didn't survive this alone, other states helped us - so we are paying it forward.
Then he went after the internal problem - which is the nitwits congregating in huge crowds around bars and restaurants over the weekend in the lower East Side of Manhattan and in Astoria, Queens. I saw the pictures and was flabbergasted. Why? Why would anyone want to stand in a huge crowd and drink alcohol? I don't understand doing it normally let alone during a pandemic.
Governor: I get it, you are young twenty-something superheros who want to party. But first of all, no, you are not immune to the virus. You can get it. And even if you don't get that sick - you could give it to someone else who could get sick. This is just stupid. Knock it off and stop being stupid.
I agree with him. I don't understand why people feel the need to party with seven hundred people. Ten or five, yes, maybe even twenty, but beyond that?
I prefer quiet outdoor places with no people. The area of the city that I live in isn't bad in that respect at least - it's not party central. Although it does try occasionally. Apparently on Sunday there was a top tier guitarist holding an outdoor concert on his front porch between Avenue C and Beverly on East 4th Street. I bet that attracted a small crowd. Not a big one though.
We've actually been pretty good about not congregating in my area. Then again, it was hit hard by the virus - which may or may not be the reason.
Anyhow..I'm tired, so signing off and leaving you with another photo of Mt. Rainer in Washington...(vacation in 2018..I wish it was 2018 right now, feeling oddly nostalgic for 2018 at the moment..)
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Date: 2020-07-20 11:35 pm (UTC)Heh. I'm feeling nostalgic for 2004 -- might as well roll back the climate change and a lot of other things even farther.
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Date: 2020-07-21 02:42 am (UTC)