good afternoon.
did my usual potterings and mulling about this morning. washed all my newly aquired food stuffs, the plastic coverings and even washed the eggs and took the packaging out, just to be safe and sure, washed my hands multiple times, opened the doors in a different way with my arm, elbow and such like.
It's interesting to me how we get into a rythem with our lives. I think i need to re-watch 'i am legend' at some point. I mean new york is kinda heading that way right now and i've just seen pictures on social media (twitter) of a tesco store in the uk with people literally next to each other queing.
Not smart, is a huge subsection of society just not listening or watching these things? are they simply confined to newspapers and tv reports?
Maybe they don't live and breathe informatics and data like us, maybe they see the luddite version of that as the best kind of social distancing full stop, even thou in this situation chances are it won't save them.
Literally seeing 100,000 people infected every three days means this thing if we don't contain is gonna look a lot different by the end of the month, that peak is gonna go up and up before we start to ebb out and start going down but i think we got months of this yet and who knows what the global ramifications are from people waking up to themselves for the first time.
Regardless, i'm at peace today. I've been making peace with myself a lot this week after like i discussed in yesterdays blog about knowing people who lost kids from suicide before the pandemic really started to take off, that really got to me and made me look closely at what i'm actually here to do.
me and my daughter had an effective 'internet squeeze' over chat today, she's been helping mum (mothers day) and everyone is ok, she's had a bit of a runny nose in the last week but she's doing better now (probably best i was'nt with her last few weeks) but yeah i've been mising here.
i'm also missing my partner who lives on the other side of the world who i've not seen in a very long while even thou we talk daily, text every hour or more, watch films and chat over long distance fibre connected lines resting on the ocean floor.
My daughter set a lovely little picture that kinda summed things up and made me feel even more at ease -- healthy, helpful and calm.
I hope that resonates with you as well today.
p.s -- seeing a bunch of projects going up on the web where you can help if you are at a loose end and want to do some remote pro bono work for people that need help, https://helpwithcovid.com
__humble x