03-12-2020, 09:44 AM
Had a Dr.'s appointment yesterday.
Gave serious consideration to cancelling it.
But, needed to get the checkup over with.
I also needed to do some shopping [horror of horrors].
We were beginning to run short on a few things.
So I hit Wally's World, HD and Safeway, then skedaddled for home and refuge, skipping Target.
I was already stressing from dealing with the people.
It was time to go.
Normally, I rarely go into town.
My neurotic aversion to dealing directly with people makes me very happy to isolate myself.
My normal social contact is only with M'Lady.
My greatest dangers in this are her social contacts, and what she brings home.
I have been caught a few times by that.
But, I do have to breakout every so often.
As an infrequent visitor to town, I noticed a few things.
All the talk here and elsewhere about panic buying looks to be greatly exaggerated.
Yeah, a few items have empty shelves.
But, it isn't all that much worse than normally when new shipments are about to arrive.
It looked kinda normal for a remote location, better than Ft. Wainwright, Akiachak, Unalaska, Barrow, Kotzebue and elsewhere.
Wally's:
You could spot them right off.
They were everywhere in the store, ... tourists, probably cruise passengers.
Pallets and carts of boxes of items were stacked thru out the aisles waiting to be put on the shelves.
Safeway
Only one person wearing a mask.
An Asian woman using it most effectively.
It was strung across her mouth with her nose sticking out above it, a pretty black one too, probably cloth.
HD
Store seemed to be pretty much normal, but parking was easy to find.
Numbers seemed to be a bit lower than normal.
Everywhere
I was using and handling carts that had been used by a large number of people before me.
That was true of almost everything else in the stores.
I shuddered, several times, but did nothing more in response.
Impossible to not have people passing very close to you often.
I found myself rubbing my face: nose, mouth, eyes, etc very often, probably mostly a nervous reaction.
I never cleaned my hands before getting home.
Why, I had been using them in my normal manner.
I laughed at the Carlin link.
But, that is me.
I expect to spend the next 5 days to 2 weeks being very paranoid, watching myself for COVID-19, or other, symptoms, probably a waste of time and energy, ... hopefully.
Even while the world is falling apart my portion seems to still be pretty close to normal.
Most of the changes are in me.
ADDON:
In response to i-y's post just below:
If the economy does seriously tank, what will happen to SoSec?
Will it be ... restricted? ... eliminated? ... or...?
Gave serious consideration to cancelling it.
But, needed to get the checkup over with.
I also needed to do some shopping [horror of horrors].
We were beginning to run short on a few things.
So I hit Wally's World, HD and Safeway, then skedaddled for home and refuge, skipping Target.
I was already stressing from dealing with the people.
It was time to go.
Normally, I rarely go into town.
My neurotic aversion to dealing directly with people makes me very happy to isolate myself.
My normal social contact is only with M'Lady.
My greatest dangers in this are her social contacts, and what she brings home.
I have been caught a few times by that.
But, I do have to breakout every so often.
As an infrequent visitor to town, I noticed a few things.
All the talk here and elsewhere about panic buying looks to be greatly exaggerated.
Yeah, a few items have empty shelves.
But, it isn't all that much worse than normally when new shipments are about to arrive.
It looked kinda normal for a remote location, better than Ft. Wainwright, Akiachak, Unalaska, Barrow, Kotzebue and elsewhere.
Wally's:
You could spot them right off.
They were everywhere in the store, ... tourists, probably cruise passengers.
Pallets and carts of boxes of items were stacked thru out the aisles waiting to be put on the shelves.
Safeway
Only one person wearing a mask.
An Asian woman using it most effectively.
It was strung across her mouth with her nose sticking out above it, a pretty black one too, probably cloth.
HD
Store seemed to be pretty much normal, but parking was easy to find.
Numbers seemed to be a bit lower than normal.
Everywhere
I was using and handling carts that had been used by a large number of people before me.
That was true of almost everything else in the stores.
I shuddered, several times, but did nothing more in response.
Impossible to not have people passing very close to you often.
I found myself rubbing my face: nose, mouth, eyes, etc very often, probably mostly a nervous reaction.
I never cleaned my hands before getting home.
Why, I had been using them in my normal manner.
I laughed at the Carlin link.
But, that is me.
I expect to spend the next 5 days to 2 weeks being very paranoid, watching myself for COVID-19, or other, symptoms, probably a waste of time and energy, ... hopefully.
Even while the world is falling apart my portion seems to still be pretty close to normal.
Most of the changes are in me.
ADDON:
In response to i-y's post just below:
If the economy does seriously tank, what will happen to SoSec?
Will it be ... restricted? ... eliminated? ... or...?
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Was a Democrat until gun control became a knee jerk, then a Republican until the crazies took over, back to being a nonpartisan again.
This time, I can no longer participate in the primary.
Was a Democrat until gun control became a knee jerk, then a Republican until the crazies took over, back to being a nonpartisan again.
This time, I can no longer participate in the primary.