How's everybody doing during the pandemic?

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I’m doing quite well. I work from home and not having to do in person visits with clients has saved me a lot of time. I can work more in the garden. Read more. I have gone to the dentist. Difficult to get a root canal via zoom. I did drive through the pharmacy to pick up meds.

The bad part was having to cancel my trip to the Yukon. But that is piddling compared to what others are going through.

I feel guilty for enjoying this lockdown that has caused others so much grief.

I'm quite enjoying the lockdown, it's not made much difference to my lifestyle and I'm lucky enough to be in a place where we can legally do pretty much what we like, no strict laws. It's been nice to have an excuse to be a stick-at-home for a change, and everybody's been dragged down (personally I'd call it up) to my level. And I got a cheque for $1200 from the government yesterday which will be very helpful to keep the wolf from the door.

I'm rather apprehensive about what'll happen next - anticipating growing pressure from gung-ho virus deniers to socialise again, and the anxiety of having to say no to that, and an attack on my standard of living from some horrible austerity drive because of the economy going south, and maybe something like an apocalypse if the idiots who are opening up the country too early go and let the virus rip again, but I don't let those scary thoughts bother me from day to day, I don't see there's much I can do to cover the bases. There's a possible upside too - maybe people will have come to appreciate that you don't have to have tons of real-life appointments and face-to-face conversations to get things done, and they'll realise we've got the technology to do most of that stuff from home.

I've been symptom free for more than two weeks now.

Not being social is not a change for me since I am not social to begin with. I am a bit annoyed that I can't shop as freely as I would like but it's not too bad, especially since now stores have high risk hours so that is when I go. I can't stand in line outside the stores. That is not possible for me. It does suck royally that my favorite nature parks are much more crowded now so it limits the times that I can enjoy them. Other than that, I am not noticing any difference in my life other than my Special Olympics and EasterSeals events and practices are not happening. But as long as I can get out and hike and ride my bikes and kayak, I'm good.

Even by the very nature of AS/HFA (where social distancing & staying at home are natural), I sometimes find that I'm making adjustments like everybody else!

I'm sad that one of my favorite places will not be getting pups this year, was looking forward to them but they won't due to the pandemic. That's a loss, it affects the dynamics of the pack too, it would give some much needed relief for the older animals.

Worried about catching the virus due to being in risk group and having at risk family
concerned about reopening too early will cause increase in spread and death

since I take no chances, all new stuff from post to groceries entering my home go into quarantine before being used/touched. A pain but security is 100% worth it!

Other than that, it's business as usual. I go out only if I have to, I spend time with those I want since we already happen to live together, so the social distancing rules makes no difference in my life, I was already naturally doing social distancing by my very nature!

Since dog fur can transmit the virus for some hours, I have stopped petting dogs I meet. I miss that, but it's only temporary. I could just wash my hands afterwards, but I suffer dry skin in the best of times, so I avoid having to go through thorough washing when I can. I can pet doggies later.

I almost envied pupils some weeks back, since I would have loved to be told to stay at home instead when I was in school!! But it's better to be done with it, period, and they're starting up again now anyway, and would hate to have to go there now and be more at risk.

I am very much looking forward to the vaccine!!

Today's amusements in a small town: I ordered some lawn seed three weeks ago, expecting to pick it up at the local store within ten days max. Yesterday, I got permission to go pick it up, and found that it had been given to someone totally in error after sitting for days. They didn't even want it. It may be back in town this week. . . On the plus side, we Definitely don't need our photo ID to pick up orders here, even with a mask.
2: I watched a video of the Zoom wedding of an acquaintance, and one of the guests got up just before the vows, flashing his briefs.

Our days are almost 17 hours long now, and the leaves are only about 1/2 out, but a bike ride can produce sweat now, some days. Siberia used to have the same weather as us, but since last summer, they have been far warmer, and their spring is a month ahead of ours.

One way I have of staying sane is to analyse the statistics about the number of new cases and deaths, as the limited numbers reported in the mainstream media tend to be unavailing. Of course it'll be a long time before even the experts will be able to say a lot about what really happened, but it's fun to crunch a few numbers and plot a few charts.

Surprisingly I found evidence that Boris Johnson may have been correct when he said the UK was past the peak of the pandemic - what wasn't reported was that if you plot the daily new cases divided by the number of people tested (a rough measure of the number of people in the whole country who have the virus, better for that purpose than the raw daily case numbers that depend on how many people were tested) and take the 7-day rolling average, you get a fairly smooth bell curve with a peak consistent with his assertion. I didn't want the evidence to support what he said because I think he tells a lot of lies, but I feel bound to give credit where it's due.

I also noticed that if you divide the total daily deaths in the USA by those in the UK, the ratio creeps inexorably upwards, suggesting the USA's relatively liberal approach to lockdown caused more deaths than the UK's approach, and that was apparent even in the early days when the downward trend in deaths wasn't obviously worse in the US like it is now.

For my next trick I'm hoping to get some kind of a handle on the effect of Johnson's lockdown easing that began in the middle of May. Strangely, the UK government has suddenly stopped giving out figures for the number of people tested per day, so I'll probably have to wait till the effect shows up in the death figures from early June onwards (deaths are probably a better measure than raw daily case numbers, but it takes a few weeks for the virus to kill a person).

It's a strange pastime but like I say, it seems to help me cope with the weird feeling that this pandemic gives me. Analysis seems to make me feel secure, and in this case it might give me a better handle on the true state of things than just listening to politicians - and even the expert scientists sometimes have an axe to grind and don't really tell the whole truth.

Oh I'm doing great!

I love every second of being mentally unstable.

Sorry for being an attention whore.

Halfway between on-edge and bored. Accidentally put a scratch in my living room ceiling with an infantry sabre.

Fed up.