OMG this pandemic!

I’m trying to stay up to date with all of the research that is happening so I can help our patients get the best information available. I made a poster with the state’s coronavirus website and other resources for factual updates about the virus. I have also printed out the WHO’s Mythbuster series of fact sheets…

This will be happening everywhere, in every country. You won’t be told it’s happening but it will be, because we’re past the point of containment to just desperate hope that health systems won’t collapse under the strain of a populace refusing to stay the fuck at home.

My parents went to a retirement party the same day we got word that my school was closing. “They’re closing the schools till April, it’s kinda serious, are you sure you want to go to a party?” Thankfully it’s been a week, and they’re both healthy.

If it makes you feel any better, onw of my relatives is stuck in Honduras, relying on Delta to get one more flight out before their borders are shut down completely. It's a shitshow getting any communication to her. So you might be better off where you are than to be newly arrived in Panama.  I'm going to stock her…

My otherwise very cautious father was convinced he needed to make one last trip to the store at the end of the week. I persuaded him to use Instacart and now he's a little obsessed with it.

I work in a pharmacy, so we are essential, and we have been overwhelmed the last two weeks. We've filled roughly 50% more prescriptions than ever before, and that's between state board mandated hourly cleanings of all high-touch surfaces and the waiting area. I'm exhausted.

Devon is massive, rural, elderly, and in the North only has Barnstaple as a hospital with an ICU while South Devon though still rural has Exeter, Torbay, and Plymouth though Torbay has a reputation for death. It also doesn’t help that all the wankers from London with second homes are flooding out into the rest of the…

Who else is having to try to convince their boomer parents to not be stupid?

I feel those of us who went through government shutdowns are the best prepared. When people were like ‘BUT WHAT AM I GOING TO DO IN MY HOME FOR WEEKS’ I’m like ‘well, let me tell you how to spend four weeks in your home and spend very little money’.

We’re at the stage where “storage sites” are being scouted, with few being told that what’s to be stored are the bodies we won’t have anywhere to bury or burn.

My mum and I are coughing; we’re pretty sure it’s not the ‘rona but please send us your healthy vibes anyway.

My sister and mum have both been informed their wards (brain tumors and broken bones respectively) will become covid-19 only from Monday. They won’t be given PPE most of the time, it’s a fucking shitshow.
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Similar mess over here.

I’m a patient coordinator at a dental clinic. So far everyone in our office is deemed “essential” but our operating hours have been cut as we’re only going to be seeing emergencies for the next few week (if not longer). I’m still going in to work everyday and staying clocked in for every last minute that I’m allowed…

Happy Saturday kitty cats! The Bartender is making chicken orzo soup with lemon, and generally puttering in the kitchen. From his cabin in the mountains. In the U.S. Alas, we did not get to Panama this week! On Sunday or Monday, the Panamanian government closed its borders to non residents, which would be us because…

Shout-out to the first few entries in the MYST series (available on Steam!) which take a long-ass time to get through, and also to the Civilization series, which you can fire up for thirty minutes or thirty hours straight and is pretty much infinitely replayable.

I work in a hospital, but I’m not medical staff, so the hospital is still opened, and I still have to go in, until we run out of stuff to do I guess. I don’t know what will happen at that point, they might have me restocking the pharmacy shelves. I’m fine with that, as long as I can keep my job. 

I’m a bank teller, so I’m Essential Personnel. We closed our lobbies and went full-service drive-through (with some finagling and a whole lotta patience) this week.

When the restrictive social distancing methods everyone’s complaining about is basically a description of how you already live your life.

My ex-boyfriend got me into Animal Crossing for the N64 years ago. I guess it was a good girlfriend babysitting tool, as I’d play it for hours, and I wouldn’t consider myself to be a gamer . I’ve dabbled in video games, but was never hardcore into them. Animal Crossing has no end, it’s kind of mindless and fun. I was…