It helps if the police set the example, however going to the grocery store this morning there were five of them talking all within about two feet of each other. It just makes you wonder how do you encourage others to social distance.
Some things look good and even to me, but you have to wonder. Was taking a walk the other day, came across a restaurant that had set up a pick-up stand or station right off the street. There was a small driveway or extra lane that was already there so people could pick up the food without blocking traffic. And not quite sure how this worked, but they also had a bar set up on the street and were offering drinks. For those of you who don’t know Texas frowns on serving drinks and letting people walk around, I think there are a couple of tourist areas that allow this, but I am not even sure about that. So it looks like people could come up and have a drink while they were waiting for their food. Not sure, but not sure either if people coming up and having a drink or two while waiting on their food in their car is a good look. It was cool to walk right past an open-air bar set up like a grandiose lemonade stand on the sidewalk in Texas.
It was bad enough before when there were thousands trying to be youtube stars, now sheesh.
Of course, when the better half is home for weeks on end the vacuum cleaner goes down. We changed the belt and it still wasn’t picking anything up so the better half goes into diagnostic mode. She finds the problem, there is a huge and we were later to discover a very huge clog in the tubing. So we unhook and unclasp everything then pull the tube out. Now, this was smack dap in the middle of the for lack of a better word or laziness to get a thesaurus out an accordion-type tubing that could stretch a good distance. So we played around with it for a while even sticking the long handle of a mop through the tubing and somehow manage to get this clog closes to one end. Finally, after thirty minutes of digging with a simple drain snake, we are able to get the clog out. Our bathtub full of mud, more hair and dog hair than you can imagine only to find a small plastic clip with glue on it in the middle of all that hair. How that simple piece of plastic got stuck I do not know, yet it managed to create more aggravation on a Saturday than I can remember. It wasn’t larger than your whole fingernail.
Hard to go to work even when you know you need to get somethings done. Everything is a distraction it seems. Some people are able to focus, yet still, there is always that feeling in the air that something is going to happen for everyone.
And what irks me the most right now is every decision you make creates a 15-day wait to know if you made a mistake. I walk significantly and it seemed no one ever bothered me. Or maybe I just didn’t notice it as much. I work downtown so I see homeless people regularly, but overall people leave you alone. Now it seems everyone wants help or wants to help you. I certainly understand, but unfortunately, this isn’t the time. It amazes me how many people aren’t taking this seriously enough. So every time someone gets close or there are too many people rushing to get on the elevator, or some unknown person shows up in the office unexpectantly or did you touch your face while shopping in the grocery store you have to restart that 15-day window in the back of your mind.
I do not live in fear, but I do live cautiously. Too many people are way too casual for my blood. And people are filling up the various parks and hike and bike trails all day long. So much so it makes news headlines. This happens in Dallas and too many other places.
Finally one interesting stat I did see recently. We all know there is a political divide, there are red states and blue states, rural and urban, etc... so it made sense that the reason Trump supporters, outside of the alt right’s misinformation campaign, disbelieve how dangerous is this is because they are not affected as much as the cities. Many Trump supporters are rural folk and the virus hasn’t hit them as much so the impact is still negligible for them. The story broke down how people felt by counties across the country, whether red or blue and then the number of cases for that county. It just isn’t that they support Trump and are listening to him only, it just hasn’t hit home for them to be concerned. Unfortunately because of the political divide, they do not understand how damaging this is going to be to the whole country since they hate democrats and do not believe the media. Trump has backed us into a new corner without even trying.
Stumbling through the days trying to make sense of my own head. Nothing comes out coherent. Stay safe, keep washing hands and use that hand lotion too. Nothing like excessive soap and alcohol to dry out your skin.
And I swear my face has itched like it never has before. There is always this excruciating itch that flares up randomly. It is some psychological hysteria somewhere in my brain, but it is the most annoying itch you can imagine.
And I knew I was going to ramble around, yet this is even too much for me.
Cheers
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