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mousme On Tuesday evening, in a breathtaking display of agility, grace, and coordination, I managed to trip backward over my vacuum cleaner and brained myself on the edge of my bathtub.
I KNOW.
Anyway, I have a concussion and am off work until June 8th. I feel very stupid, but what can you do?
In the meantime, I went back and checked, and the last time I posted here it was mid-March and we all had no idea how bad it was going to get. Sure, I could sort of see the writing on the wall, but my optimistic little self thought that maybe we'd be starting to come out of it by the end of April.
*slightly hysterical laughter*
So, yeah. Pandemic! This is not the apocalypse most of us were preparing for. (Yes, I know, it's not actually the apocalypse. Hush.) There are legions of libertarian men out there right now who are extremely disappointed that instead of the world of Mad Max in which they get to zoom around on over sized vehicles shooting and pillaging indiscriminately (because "self-defense"), they are instead stuck in a world in which our lives literally depend on helping each other and following rules. Wash your hands, wear a mask, make sure to keep your distance from people, don't go out unnecessarily. As apocalypses go, it's pretty banal, except for the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have died and economies around the world are falling apart.
I must amend the previous paragraph by saying that at least some of us were preparing for this, namely epidemiologists, who have been screaming about this for decades. Back at the end of March I watched "Pandemic" on Netflix, and have started mentally referring to it as "The We Told You So" documentary. If you have Netflix, it's well worth the watch.
I don't think I'll go into the details of the response here in Canada. There are tons of articles and so forth with better explanations, and tbh the concussion is making it very hard for me to do much beyond stare blankly at the walls most of the time. I can manage between 10-20 minutes of screen time before I have to stop due to fatigue/headache/etc., and that is not nearly enough time to get into the ins and outs of a global pandemic and various countries' response to it. Suffice it to say that we're probably reopening too early and I wouldn't be surprised to see the number of cases and deaths spike in the next couple of weeks.
In the meantime, there's nothing for me to do except be at home and take care of the pets. I am one of the very lucky people in all of this, I know, because I have the benefit of both job security and being at very little risk of catching it (or of becoming very sick if I do catch it). So I am grateful for not-so-small mercies.
I KNOW.
Anyway, I have a concussion and am off work until June 8th. I feel very stupid, but what can you do?
In the meantime, I went back and checked, and the last time I posted here it was mid-March and we all had no idea how bad it was going to get. Sure, I could sort of see the writing on the wall, but my optimistic little self thought that maybe we'd be starting to come out of it by the end of April.
*slightly hysterical laughter*
So, yeah. Pandemic! This is not the apocalypse most of us were preparing for. (Yes, I know, it's not actually the apocalypse. Hush.) There are legions of libertarian men out there right now who are extremely disappointed that instead of the world of Mad Max in which they get to zoom around on over sized vehicles shooting and pillaging indiscriminately (because "self-defense"), they are instead stuck in a world in which our lives literally depend on helping each other and following rules. Wash your hands, wear a mask, make sure to keep your distance from people, don't go out unnecessarily. As apocalypses go, it's pretty banal, except for the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have died and economies around the world are falling apart.
I must amend the previous paragraph by saying that at least some of us were preparing for this, namely epidemiologists, who have been screaming about this for decades. Back at the end of March I watched "Pandemic" on Netflix, and have started mentally referring to it as "The We Told You So" documentary. If you have Netflix, it's well worth the watch.
I don't think I'll go into the details of the response here in Canada. There are tons of articles and so forth with better explanations, and tbh the concussion is making it very hard for me to do much beyond stare blankly at the walls most of the time. I can manage between 10-20 minutes of screen time before I have to stop due to fatigue/headache/etc., and that is not nearly enough time to get into the ins and outs of a global pandemic and various countries' response to it. Suffice it to say that we're probably reopening too early and I wouldn't be surprised to see the number of cases and deaths spike in the next couple of weeks.
In the meantime, there's nothing for me to do except be at home and take care of the pets. I am one of the very lucky people in all of this, I know, because I have the benefit of both job security and being at very little risk of catching it (or of becoming very sick if I do catch it). So I am grateful for not-so-small mercies.
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Date: 2020-05-29 02:19 pm (UTC)I, too, share these sorts of displays of grace and poise. (I fell up the stairs, once, in high school and sprained my ankle. Up the stairs.)