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Life in a Suburb of Virus Town USA
Mar. 5th, 2020 06:55 am My house is about 5 miles from the Life Care Center of Kirkland, and J's father-in-law lived there for awhile. My little city of Redmond had some of the first responders help with the mass evac of the facility, so we are at 3/4 staffing right now. The mayor declared a state of emergency to get help with that, but needless to say, the city government is being incredibly cautious right now.
Such as: I usually go to Tai Chi on Thursdays - but all of the senior programs and city classes with more than 10 people were canceled as of last night. It's going to be on a week-to-week basis that they decide whether or not to close. I cannot imagine that they will reopen next week, or that I would go if they do.
Still planning on individuals coming over to the house, but we are no longer meeting friends at restaurants. I do have one final fast food outing scheduled for a friend's house, where we will pick up and eat at her place to minimize contact with workers. Not the best, but we've got two months (more or less) of build up to go through before we get to peak; at the moment, the risk of infection is low, so one final hurrah.
Lar has been advised to work from home as much as possible; no one should go into the office. We are going to have to figure out a place where I can put my computer as his con calls are already loud and annoying to me. Maybe it's time to reclaim the living room from the cats, and set myself up with an office there.
Per the research I've seen, it looks that the bulk of the infection spread outside of china will hit around the early part of summer, right when we have scheduled our trip to England. I am waiting a couple of weeks to confirm that expectation, but if it happens, we will probably cancel early so we can get something of a refund. We aren't flying United, but given that the company is already canceling international flights into April, I think that we might not be able to get there by June anyway. I do have trip insurance, so I could wait until something happens that actually prevents us from going and make a claim then, or I can do it this month and have everything settled. Argh. Decisions.
At least the taxes are done. No refund, but nothing to pay either. One more worry down.
Such as: I usually go to Tai Chi on Thursdays - but all of the senior programs and city classes with more than 10 people were canceled as of last night. It's going to be on a week-to-week basis that they decide whether or not to close. I cannot imagine that they will reopen next week, or that I would go if they do.
Still planning on individuals coming over to the house, but we are no longer meeting friends at restaurants. I do have one final fast food outing scheduled for a friend's house, where we will pick up and eat at her place to minimize contact with workers. Not the best, but we've got two months (more or less) of build up to go through before we get to peak; at the moment, the risk of infection is low, so one final hurrah.
Lar has been advised to work from home as much as possible; no one should go into the office. We are going to have to figure out a place where I can put my computer as his con calls are already loud and annoying to me. Maybe it's time to reclaim the living room from the cats, and set myself up with an office there.
Per the research I've seen, it looks that the bulk of the infection spread outside of china will hit around the early part of summer, right when we have scheduled our trip to England. I am waiting a couple of weeks to confirm that expectation, but if it happens, we will probably cancel early so we can get something of a refund. We aren't flying United, but given that the company is already canceling international flights into April, I think that we might not be able to get there by June anyway. I do have trip insurance, so I could wait until something happens that actually prevents us from going and make a claim then, or I can do it this month and have everything settled. Argh. Decisions.
At least the taxes are done. No refund, but nothing to pay either. One more worry down.
