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1. New York vs. the Corona Virus
The Corona Virus appears to be winning, but New York is not going down without a fight.
I'm starting to feel trapped. Or locked up in a comfortable but odd solitary confinement, while the creeping death lurks outside my doorway. My mother's words, not mine. But it fits.
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2. Almost forgot...
Mother:So apparently, there's a cruise ship wandering about the Eastern Coastline and Carribean that can't dock. Or no one will let it dock.
Me: Really? Does it have cases?
Mother: Apparently it has 25 cases and no one wants it. It doesn't know where to go. It had gone to the Carribbean, but none of the Caribbean islands would let it dock. Miami doesn't know what to do with it - so it refused it.
Me: So it's just stuck out there? It had to leave around Mid-March...
Mother: Yeah, it left around the time all this was happening, people did it anyway and now they are stuck with sick people on a cruise ship and can't get home.
Wonder if it ever found a place to dock. That was a few days ago.
Americans are stuck around the world - they went on vacation and now they can't get back. There's a whole group of them stuck in Peru. (I'm extremely happy that I chose not to book that trip to Peru for the first two weeks of March, I'd have gotten stuck down there and that would not have been good. Although Peru, does have less cases than NY does.) I'm guessing this thing is killing the travel industry, not to mention the airlines.
I did hear on the news that a private jet company is gearing up to rescue all the trapped Americans trying to get home.
3. Laundry and Recycables
( I've gone from obsessing over getting toilet paper and supplies to doing laundry and getting rid of my recycables. I suppose that's progress, right? )
4. Unitarian Universalists vs. the Corona Virus
My Church has fully embraced technology after several years of pooh-poohing it and telling people to check their cell phones at the door. It's gone hog-wild with Zoom and Facebook.
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5. Meetup Groups and Museums and other retail outlets vs. the Corona Virus
* The Green Grape - my favorite food/liquor store in Fort Green has extended their delivery range to Park Slope, but they still don't include my zip code. Ugh. If I still lived in Carroll Gardens it would be included.
* King County Wines stopped deliveries - now you can just pick up.
(I'm thinking the universe is telling me that it doesn't want me to drink my way through this crisis, because I can't get alcohol to save my life - I can however get CBD gummies. So all is well. Amazon does not sell alcohol. Chocolate yes, alcohol no. And not really CBD either - it's hard to tell.)
* Brooklyn Museum of Art sent me an email. Because I'd supported it in the past.
Here's a snippet:
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* The Meetup Groups are hosting things online now, such as speed dating, chat, jigsaw puzzles (complete one and post it online), book clubs, movie discussions, and weirdly there's loveasmaze - single walks in parks to relieve stress. (Eh, not sure that can work unless you can get people to walk six feet apart.) The therapy walker in my neighborhood tried that for three weeks then gave up. Also, movie nights for $5 and $8 dollars - at AMC Theaters? Eh, aren't they closed?
* Meanwhile all the retail outlets that have online catalogues are hosting massive sales. Buy furniture, bedding, etc for 70% off - Macy's, West Elm, Pottery Barn, etc. No one wants to buy clothes, pillows, print books, sheets or bedding. I don't. I'd have to figure out how to clean it. Groceries are bad enough.
6. ME vs. Insane Opera Singers and Yodellers while picking up mail
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Living in a 77 unit apartment complex with no terrace or back yard during a pandemic, in epidemic central definitely poses its own series of challenges.
The Corona Virus appears to be winning, but New York is not going down without a fight.
I'm starting to feel trapped. Or locked up in a comfortable but odd solitary confinement, while the creeping death lurks outside my doorway. My mother's words, not mine. But it fits.
( Read more... )
2. Almost forgot...
Mother:So apparently, there's a cruise ship wandering about the Eastern Coastline and Carribean that can't dock. Or no one will let it dock.
Me: Really? Does it have cases?
Mother: Apparently it has 25 cases and no one wants it. It doesn't know where to go. It had gone to the Carribbean, but none of the Caribbean islands would let it dock. Miami doesn't know what to do with it - so it refused it.
Me: So it's just stuck out there? It had to leave around Mid-March...
Mother: Yeah, it left around the time all this was happening, people did it anyway and now they are stuck with sick people on a cruise ship and can't get home.
Wonder if it ever found a place to dock. That was a few days ago.
Americans are stuck around the world - they went on vacation and now they can't get back. There's a whole group of them stuck in Peru. (I'm extremely happy that I chose not to book that trip to Peru for the first two weeks of March, I'd have gotten stuck down there and that would not have been good. Although Peru, does have less cases than NY does.) I'm guessing this thing is killing the travel industry, not to mention the airlines.
I did hear on the news that a private jet company is gearing up to rescue all the trapped Americans trying to get home.
3. Laundry and Recycables
( I've gone from obsessing over getting toilet paper and supplies to doing laundry and getting rid of my recycables. I suppose that's progress, right? )
4. Unitarian Universalists vs. the Corona Virus
My Church has fully embraced technology after several years of pooh-poohing it and telling people to check their cell phones at the door. It's gone hog-wild with Zoom and Facebook.
( Read more... )
5. Meetup Groups and Museums and other retail outlets vs. the Corona Virus
* The Green Grape - my favorite food/liquor store in Fort Green has extended their delivery range to Park Slope, but they still don't include my zip code. Ugh. If I still lived in Carroll Gardens it would be included.
* King County Wines stopped deliveries - now you can just pick up.
(I'm thinking the universe is telling me that it doesn't want me to drink my way through this crisis, because I can't get alcohol to save my life - I can however get CBD gummies. So all is well. Amazon does not sell alcohol. Chocolate yes, alcohol no. And not really CBD either - it's hard to tell.)
* Brooklyn Museum of Art sent me an email. Because I'd supported it in the past.
Here's a snippet:
( Read more... )
* The Meetup Groups are hosting things online now, such as speed dating, chat, jigsaw puzzles (complete one and post it online), book clubs, movie discussions, and weirdly there's loveasmaze - single walks in parks to relieve stress. (Eh, not sure that can work unless you can get people to walk six feet apart.) The therapy walker in my neighborhood tried that for three weeks then gave up. Also, movie nights for $5 and $8 dollars - at AMC Theaters? Eh, aren't they closed?
* Meanwhile all the retail outlets that have online catalogues are hosting massive sales. Buy furniture, bedding, etc for 70% off - Macy's, West Elm, Pottery Barn, etc. No one wants to buy clothes, pillows, print books, sheets or bedding. I don't. I'd have to figure out how to clean it. Groceries are bad enough.
6. ME vs. Insane Opera Singers and Yodellers while picking up mail
( Read more... )
Living in a 77 unit apartment complex with no terrace or back yard during a pandemic, in epidemic central definitely poses its own series of challenges.