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I hate talking about the news with people these days because it's all about coronavirus/covid-19 and how people are reacting to it.
California, New York and Illinois are all going into lockdown mode with 'shelter-in-place' orders. I'm wondering when, or even if, we'll wind up having the same experience here, in South Carolina.
I can understand major cities locking down. If you have 100 people living in one square mile and the bulk of them are using public transportation to get around, of course you're going to have a higher than usual infection rate. But for smaller communities I'm not sure a lockdown would do anything really positive. The data regarding current infection rates in the States isn't really reliable because there's no reliable metric to compare it to.
Eh.
Also, if I'm being honest, I worry about the Store. We can probably survive a month being shut down, but it wouldn't be pleasant. I think our landlord would wave the rent and we wouldn't worry about utilities as most places are giving people a pass on them. But we wouldn't be able to get new product. I don't even know how we'd receive it, since we'd be under a mandatory lockdown.
It's all very frustrating. And, if I'm being honest, a wee bit scary.
But we shall persevere.
Because what's the alternative?
Although I think if I'm stuck in the house with J and Ryan for more than two weeks I'm probably going to kill someone.
Just saying.
California, New York and Illinois are all going into lockdown mode with 'shelter-in-place' orders. I'm wondering when, or even if, we'll wind up having the same experience here, in South Carolina.
I can understand major cities locking down. If you have 100 people living in one square mile and the bulk of them are using public transportation to get around, of course you're going to have a higher than usual infection rate. But for smaller communities I'm not sure a lockdown would do anything really positive. The data regarding current infection rates in the States isn't really reliable because there's no reliable metric to compare it to.
Eh.
Also, if I'm being honest, I worry about the Store. We can probably survive a month being shut down, but it wouldn't be pleasant. I think our landlord would wave the rent and we wouldn't worry about utilities as most places are giving people a pass on them. But we wouldn't be able to get new product. I don't even know how we'd receive it, since we'd be under a mandatory lockdown.
It's all very frustrating. And, if I'm being honest, a wee bit scary.
But we shall persevere.
Because what's the alternative?
Although I think if I'm stuck in the house with J and Ryan for more than two weeks I'm probably going to kill someone.
Just saying.
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Date: 2020-03-20 09:14 pm (UTC)From: