How is everyone doing? Just a quick check in to keep in touch seems like a good idea right now.
I'm fine, so far, at least. Not working, but still technically on call and so getting paid. It's really kind of eerie when there's virtually nothing and no one moving around in the neighborhood. If I wrote horror or dark fantasy or even post-apocalyptic, this would sure provide the mood.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Hi, Meredith. It's good to hear from you.
Pretty quiet here, for the most part (except for the earthquake and aftershocks we had starting on Wednesday - we felt another aftershock this morning - very strange experience).
I tended my granddaughter on 9 Mar for a good part of the day, and later that week learned that she and her father started coughing and had fevers. So I have been quarantining ever since and have felt okay. Their symptoms didn't get worse, so they don't think it was COVID-19, but it's still scary and stressful.
I pray we all get through this okay.
Posted by Robert Nowall (Member # 2764) on :
Wondering that too. Haven't had much to say...my writing is in another period of doldrums, and what I'm writing aren't things I particularly want to show anybody...and my days have been crowded with retirement and taking care of my mother (before) and constant checking of the grocery stores for staple goods (lately).
Hope everybody is well.
Posted by Reziac (Member # 9345) on :
quote:Originally posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury: I tended my granddaughter on 9 Mar for a good part of the day, and later that week learned that she and her father started coughing and had fevers. So I have been quarantining ever since and have felt okay. Their symptoms didn't get worse, so they don't think it was COVID-19, but it's still scary and stressful.
About 85% of the symptomatic cases (many being asymptomatic) never get any worse than that. So if it was CV19 (like as not), that was ideal... enough exposure to develop good immunity, not enough to wind up in hospital.
Not much of it up here in the Northern Wastes as yet, and has not penetrated my hermitage, but the future is still a blank page and the dice are still rolling.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Thanks, Reziac. I kind of hope it was COVID-19 because they are all okay now.
We will get through this, but I hope it won't be as bad on the other side as some fear it may be.
Posted by EmmaSohan (Member # 10917) on :
If things change as fast in April as they did in March, this is the calm before the storm. But it's so impossible to predict.
Everything is fine here. Lots of social distancing, hospitals not yet running out of supplies.
I'm still working on articles and determiners, a topic probably too boring to discuss. I am happy to respond if there's anything anyone wants to talk about.
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
Let's pray things don't change as fast in April.
I keep trying to imagine what it will be like when this is over and how we really decide it is over.
I fear my speculative fiction muscles are a bit overwhelmed by trying to think what the new "normal" will be like.
However, if any of you want to exercise your muscles, we could have a discussion about what we think it will be like.
I really don't think it will go back to the way it was before things started to get crazy - we've all been affected and changed by what's happening.
Posted by EmmaSohan (Member # 10917) on :
Our government was predicting 100-200K deaths in the US. We're starting the month with 4K deaths. So if nothing unexpected happens in April, it's going to look really different at May 1.