It's starting to make me really sad.
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Our Governor has closed down everything she doesn't deem essential. Our lawn mowing guy can't come and pick up sticks, rake up leaves or mow the lawns. The garden centers at the Walmart and other stores are roped off because buying seeds and getting annual flowers to plants, is not essential. We are mandated to stay home and can only go out for groceries or prescriptions.
I decided yesterday I needed a drive in my car so I went up to the gas station, filled the car up with gas and went inside and bought a bag of chips and a candy bar. No one in there except the cashier hidden behind a giant plastic shield. I felt like such a rebel.
Our Governor had also banned all doctors from using HydroxyChloroquine. This week, since our numbers have gone up, she is begging for supplies of the medicine.
In my County we have 206 positive cases and 3 deaths. One was a 20 year old. Of course, those numbers will go up.
I have a sinking feeling that The Virus will be around until a vaccine comes out for it. We were hoping that with hot weather coming, it would kill The Virus, but now "they" are saying that nothing can kill it. So even when the stores open again and businesses and restaurants open, there is still going to be chances of contracting it.
Even me, a natural stay-at-home person is getting tired of it. I went out for a walk today. I can feel my legs getting weaker from all the non-exercise. My weekly trip around the store and up and down the aisles, used to be my exercise.
I don't know. I don't think any of the experts know either. It's not like any of us have gone through anything like this, so we know what to do. Even the Polio epidemic in the mid-fifties wasn't this bad, and we did a bit of social distancing back then.
Life as we have known it, will never be the same after this.
Life will be very different, that's for sure. A lot of states don't even want you to take a drive! STAY HOME except for food and medicine. Giving out HUGE fines. Stay HOME unless going to get groceries. Walk around your neighborhood. Exercise in your tiny home. Be creative. Miss you! HAPPY EASTER!
ReplyDeleteI don't agree with roping off the gardening centers either---people need to do something---but our governor's logic makes sense. She said it was to reduce the amount of time we spend in the stores and the number of cashiers needed thus reducing our exposure to germs floating around. Since stores can only allow a percentage of their capacity of shoppers in at one time, on one hand I'm glad I don't have to wait outside while someone picks out plants they can't put in the ground this early anyway. Seeds at Meijer aren't kept in the garden center so when I go Tuesday I'm going to test that rumor and see if I can buy some. Facebook is bitching about it but I haven't seen it on a state official site.
ReplyDeleteIt's all very depressing, isn't it.
Oh Judy - this too will pass. I'm not convinced that this is any worse than what you've already described. Personally, I think it all falls back to it being election year. I'm probably wrong, won't be the first time. What I'm missing? My family! But, I know it's what we have to do for now.
ReplyDeleteTake care, and start singing "the sun will come out tomorrow". Okay, I borrowed that from Jenny. :)
xoxo
Sally
Please don't get depressed this early on. I know I saw laments when we were at two weeks of confinement, but we are seeing that it's really working here in California, so the laments are fewer. As we start week 5, I figure we might be half way through our period of quarantine. That is, if everyone will behave themselves.
ReplyDeleteWe have never experienced what it's like to have Government tell you what you can and cannot do this overtly. I hope those who purport to support Democratic Socialism see how it's a very slippery slope to having your freedom taken from you so easily. Each person needs to decide is this the way you want things to go back to after this is behind us. I look at it all historically,and the world has been through many pandemics and survived and we will too. This will end and there will be changes, some welcomed and some not. I just hope we chose wisely.
ReplyDeleteThings won't be the same, for sure.
ReplyDeleteWe're used to being home, yes, but not forced to!
Yep. You governor is as nuts as ours in Virginia! :(
Take care; hopefully soon things will change a bit.
My gardeners are still able to come every week. We have no contact so why not? I just hope they don’t develop the virus so they can’t come. I would have to wait for summers heat to kill the grass cause we got rid of the old push mower and the power one long before my husband died. I couldn’t use them now anyway.
ReplyDeleteThat med they haven’t proved to be effective or safe yet is in needless shortage causing great difficulty for many for whom it is desperately needed. A colleague friend of mine caring for her 90+ mother who really needs it for her rheumatoid arthritis is having lots of trouble getting it, plus price has skyrocketed. More reason should have been given as to how this was handled and promoted.
Life will be different when this virus is subdued but I don’t think the problem will be resolved anytime soon. I do hope it is in my lifetime.
Out governor is power hungry and gunning for the vice presidency!
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