Wednesday, April 29, 2020 – Day 47 of Quarantine
So this is… week six? It’s hard to tell anymore.
I’m failing at keeping up with things like this. I keep saying that I wanted to do more writing and stuff while I’m stuck here, but… I keep not.
OTOH, my seasonal rank in Destiny is over 50! And I’ve got like five more games I’m ignoring!
Sigh.
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More and more things are opening up. Things like barbershops and gyms opened Friday, and some restaurants opened Monday. Some. Most of them are still closed, but we’ll see how long that lasts. They also just announced that the malls are opening on Friday. I don’t know about the stores in them.
Macy’s let all of their staff go about a month ago. Neiman Marcus filed for bankruptcy earlier this week. I have no idea if Sears or Penny’s will ever open again. So the mall is open, but I don’t know that there is any reason to go.
More and more people are saying that we need to open. I saw someone on Facebook last night saying that “only” another 10 thousand people will die if we open now instead of the end of May, and that it is more important that we get the economy running again.
I get that some people are hurting and need income, but that says more about our lack of social services than our reaction to Covid 19. And I know that this person has no concerns about income at the moment. They’re probably more upset about how their stocks aren’t doing as well as they want, or that they can’t go out for dinner.
The president has ordered meat processing plants to stay open, no matter what. Even if their employees are sick. So people are really trying to start things back up.
We’re closing in on 60 thousand deaths from the virus. Some people are pointing out that, in some years, that many people die from the flu. Those people aren’t wrong, but…
Covid-19 killed 60 thousand people in six weeks. The flu takes six months to kill that many people. And Covid-19 did that during the biggest lockdown in history!
It isn’t gone. It’s still out there. There is going to be a second wave, and it is going to be far bigger than the first since we will never get a majority of people to lock themselves in their homes again.
If I’m wrong, feel free to give me crap about it later. Hells, I hope I’m wrong. But I have to think that we’re going to have a lot more case around July or August.
I’m going to skip both GenCon and Dragon Con this year. This won’t be gone by then, and there are enough cases of “con crud” and enough people who don’t understand basic hygiene at both of them every year, even without a global pandemic. There will be people at both who have it and are actively showing symptoms that are going to go anyway because those conventions are their only social events of the year. And I get that. I hate to miss both but… I’d rather go to the ones next year.
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I wish I could because being home all the time is even getting to me. Like I said earlier, I had thought that being home all the time would let me get more done, but I’m not. And I’m getting really on edge a lot.
Last Friday, I lost it trying to clean up something, had a yelling fit, and threw a baking pan across the room hard enough to dent it. Then later, I was playing a game on-line with my local group and got into a rules argument. (I had the rule in front of me and was reading it, and someone kept telling me I was wrong. Probably because their interpretation made the game easier.) I got mad and just quit.
Part of my problem, I think, is that I’m trying to quit drinking while I’m in lockdown since I can’t go to a bar or duck out to the store for more. I had really cut back by Friday, and have had none for the past few days. It’s harder than I thought it would be. I’m kinda antsy right now, but… it isn’t like I can run out.
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Well, I could, I suppose. Becky has run out to see a friend. They want to get a milkshake from Chic-fil-a. And she’s talking about going to buy some new clothes. (I have no idea what is open, but whatever.) She’s been finding more and more excuses to go out to do “something.”
I should be upset at that, but I’m actually happy to have her out of the house for a while so that she doesn’t constantly try to talk to me while I’m trying to work. Or whatever.
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The only thing I have been doing is gaming—a lot of Destiny. I’m kinda mad at myself for playing all the time because it’s keeping me from doing anything else. I should have left it uninstalled.
I did pick up a few new things. I’ve got Hitman, XCOM Chimera Squad, and Phantom Doctrine now. And a bunch of DLC for Stellaris. And I’ve reinstalled FO76. To bad all I do is play Destiny.
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Work has tentatively scheduled to open on May 18th, though my boss has said that our team can stay WFH until August or September. I actually almost want to go back into the office. There are fewer distractions for me there. At least I don’t have Becky coming to me every 10 minutes or so, showing me something on her phone or asking me to do something for her. I dunno what to do.
And I’ve rambled enough for today. At least I did something.
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