Greetings from the little house on Forest Street where I'm pounding away at my computer, work tasks serving as a rare link to normality. Well, it's also normal that Charles, our cat, is snoozing on the sofa. He just made the big move from the open window to the spot where Clyde usually sits.
In the other room, a small stockpile of groceries is stacked on the floor. Clyde says that's our emergency stash and I'm not allowed to touch it yet. There are hand sanitizer bottles on the dining room table. In spite of our intention to go on a "news diet" to lower stress, the television blares the latest infection figures in the background. It also reminds us that drinking bleach is not a good treatment for what ales you.
Don't tell anyone, but we have several rolls of toilet paper in the closet. Fortunately, we don't have to decide whether to fight little old ladies in the aisle at the supermarket for the last one. That seems to be what people do these days.
Assuming they're still open, we plan to order dinner from our local Chinese takeout. Reports on Next Door indicate that the old couple who owns the place are not busy these days, thanks to the ignorant stupidity of disloyal customers who are avoiding anything Chinese, lest they catch the virus. All of the sit down restaurants in Denver are closing tomorrow for the duration. It's takeout or nothing now.
Even Starbucks is switching to drive through only service. Where are hipsters going to sit and look at their laptops now? Is this the end of civilization as we know it?
Today I watched President Macron of France address his people. He was compassionate, solemn, and factual. Then I watched President Dumbass here at home. He clearly doesn't understand anything. His grasp of facts is so totally lacking that if we relied on him for information, we wouldn't have any.
President Macron compared this to a time of war and said that we have to pull together while staying apart, the sacrifice necessary for the good of all. I have never been in a war, but it's a sobering thing to contemplate. In case you were wondering, President Dumbass did not offer any words of wisdom. The smartest thing he did was step aside so Anthony Fauci could clarify some misinformation that the Donald hath spewed.
We have technology to keep in touch, thank goodness, so isolation can be somewhat mitigated. We also have unprecedented home entertainment options. I don't know what people did in the last world-wide pandemic without Netflix. I suppose they read the Bible and contemplated what humanity had done to earn such wrath that God had set upon the world.
In our relatively stable country, we aren't used to this kind of uncertainty. But I think compared to bombs going off around us and tanks in the streets, we're still pretty well off. And as far as I know, for the moment, I can still get chicken fried rice from the Chinese take out.
Stay healthy everyone!
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