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How is everyone doing, dealing with the pandemic? We have an international membership so presumably people are affected by it all over the world. Your faithful mod is in New York City, which is now considered the epicenter of the virus. Everything "non-essential" is closed. I'll look up essential services later. We're suffering from a terrible lack of beds and hospital equipment. And the POS covered in orange greasepaint is only making things worse.

How are you coping? I've gone past "staring at the TV dumbly" to "wandering around the apartment, looking out the window, stunned". We can still get takeout, so there's that.

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From:

greghousesgf

Most of the restaurants around here are closed completely and the grocery stores are crazy and out of a lot of things. It's only been a week but it feels a lot longer than that to me. I miss hanging out with my friends.

From:

cuddyclothes

It's only been two days for the full lockdown. But for the last week with most things being closed, every day felt like Sunday. Ugh!

From:

greghousesgf

I have this mental list now of places I want to go the SECOND this damn quarantine lifts.

From:

cuddyclothes

https://www.propublica.org/article/a-medical-worker-describes--terrifying-lung-failure-from-covid19-even-in-his-young-patients

From:

worth_a_wound

https://youtu.be/h5JSmCxPVL0

From:

cuddyclothes

Thanks so much!

From:

worth_a_wound

Things get a little bit better if one listens to a calming voice.

https://youtu.be/tZGXtgp5dn0

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https://youtu.be/hVi__r6iim0

From:

derien

It's not bad here, yet. I'm in Maine and we still have less than 200 cases. I guess restaurants are closed to sit-inside business, but I've got pizza or order. There is nobody who delivers food in my neck of the woods, pick up is the standard. Toilet paper can't be found on the shelves, but one of my co-workers told me that Trader Joe's will get some from the back room on request.

My husband has been working from home for the past two weeks, and has now been cut down to work 4 days per week at a 20% pay cut. I have been cut down to working 3 days per week, but am going to get paid as if I worked 5, so I feel incredibly lucky. And even on the days I do go to work they're cutting out as many as possible to go home early.

For my husband and I, we're pretty much hermits anyway - we never go out to eat or to shows, I generally only shop once per week, we don't visit friends very often. We have friends over once a month, but last time we did that via Zoom. It's working out pretty easy for us. I've actually had to shop more often because of all the things not available, so that's annoying.

I was also slightly annoyed to see a lot of Massachusetts and New Hampshire license plates when I was driving home, today. All the summer complaints are headed up to camp early. But if they feel safer here, well, they may be.

From:

cuddyclothes

All the summer complaints? Seems appropriate, even if it's a typo. It must be beautiful there.

From:

derien

No typo - "summer complaints" is the traditional way we refer to tourists. ;) Our economy has been tourist-based for a ridiculously long time. I was thinking of writing a Jeeves and Wooster 'snowed in at a cabin' story set in Maine.