Friday, April 10, 2020 – Day 28 of Quarantine
It has been four weeks now. I really never thought it would go on this long. Well, I kinda knew it would, but I didn’t really feel it.
We made a grocery run this morning, using the masks Rodney had brought us. Well over half of the people in the store were wearing them, though not as many of the actual staff. I guess they’re assuming they’re going to get it anyway.
The Publix has marked all of their aisles as being one-way to avoid having to get too close to people, though a lot of shoppers didn’t seem to notice. And I’ve noticed that some people seem to take a long time making a decision as to what to buy.
They also had six-foot marks on the floor leading to the registers and people seemed to be obeying them for the most part. And they only had every-other register open.
Meats were back to almost normal, and the bread aisle is full again. Milk seemed to be doing ok. The only things that were conspicuously missing are paper products, cleaning products, and canned stuff. Oh, rice and beans too.
We had to pick up some stuff for my parents and I took it over to them after we were done. We talked a bit with me standing in the driveway, but that was it.
At work I really should be working on a script to transfer a bunch of files up to AWS, but I really couldn’t concentrate on it. I need to work on that.
As far as the response is going, they’re saying here in Georgia that a lot of people have died in senior-care homes, and the governor has extended the lockdown on the state through basically the end of the month.
And a lot of people are out of work. As of today there have been over 16 million unemployment claims. Someone pointed out that that is over 10% of the entire workforce.
I’m actually surprised it isn’t higher…
Beyond that, no one seems to know what is going on or what to do.
As for me, I’m not sure what is going on either. Everything is running together. I’m trying to do this blog to maybe keep myself focused on what is going on, but I don’t think it is helping.
Maybe I should just play Destiny.
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