My home province gives out $573 a week to people who are either sick or in quarantine. Something like temporary basic income may also be in the cards though. Too many people are living paycheck to paycheck, and it costs less to keep them afloat than to have them go bankrupt (and require even more assistance).

Ok, I know it’s not appropriate or remotely presidential, but I got a kick out of it. 

The body I was born with, is it not what you wanted?

I don’t like her music at all, but I love what she’s saying on red carpets/in interviews.

Okay, this isn’t because of the current outbreak but I always have way too many dried beans and other legumes on hand. I just love trying different varieties and always grab any new ones I see. That’s especially true after buying an electric pressure cooker. 

I thought this was asking what sort of shame I was hoarding, and my immediate response was “far too much to possibly list, thanks”.

I went to the store and stocked up on sudafed and mucinex not because of the coronavirus, but because allergy season is about to start and I am not about to suffer because the pandemic has led to a shortage of sudafed 

Bread flour and pop corn kernels. I’m ready to bake, and eat all the popcorn. 

TAKIS (FUEGO)

I totally don’t get this but some just DON’T care. I had a house guest who refused to take the dog outside to do it’s business, even when I asked/insisted/tried to do it myself. They would stop me and say that they would handle it and then proceed to let the dog pee and shit on my floors. Like, WHAT? Will never be…

While I was in college full-time, I started working at a small hospital part-time in the evenings as a housekeeper. It was half nursing home, half patients who were basically on life support. My job was to keep the common areas clean, namely the lobbies and public restrooms. I enjoyed my job for the most part, but I…

In the early nineties I worked at a non-chain sub shop and the sweet tiny Indian woman running the show had bought it as is from whoever had been in the space before. First week goes ok, we’re in the financial district and there’s actually a small lunch rush when she sends me down to the basement to bring up a box…

I did this, and I’m sorry. I’m so very sorry. If my former dentist and/or his staff reads this blog, they should definitely tell you the story of... me.

I’ve worked in retail, so I’ve seen customers do plenty of novel things with their bodily fluids, but the staff are usually okay.

I found one of mu coworkers visibly shaking outside of the bathrooms and asked him what happened, and he told me that the men’s has a phantom shitter who must save it for a week, fills the toilet, and does not flush, but there is never toilet paper in the stool. He just kept asking me how it was possible, and getting…

*This is a heavy story, it might need a trigger warning*

In Navy boot camp, everyone spends a week or so working in the base mess hall cooking food for all the other recruits. When Seaman Recruit Ghost had to take his turn, he was assigned to the mess hall bakery. This bakery was run by this tall, rangy guy who had been in the Navy for 16 years, yet was only a third-class…

What the hell! Soap everyone. Use Soap. Then don’t pick your nose.

No one can really hide from this 100%. The rich require staff, and staff are tasked with doing their marketing, their cooking and their cleaning..all of which require them to be out among the infected. Your yacht has a messy, germ-y crew that needs to connect with those you are trying to insulate from in order to get…

Yo, anybody remember the short story “The Masque of the Red Death”? Your health is only as secure as the least-cared-for member of your society.