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Into the Weird
Mar. 17th, 2020 05:03 pmIn the space of about 3 days, the normal world has unravelled. We spent Friday and Saturday in York at the Not The Lib Dem Conference because the actual Conference was cancelled too late for us to recover our costs. We lazed about, wondered in the town sightseeing, doing a bit of shopping and occasionally seeing someone we knew. In fact we linked up with some friends for dinner, but it was a low-key affair, people deliberately not sitting close, no hugs, no kisses. York had been fairly empty, as was the train home on Sunday morning.
By Monday morning, avalanches of events were being postponed or cancelled. News from a health researcher we know confirmed my concern that I am actually in a high-risk category for the dreaded virus, due to age, asthma and having been treated for cancer with chemotherapy about 15 years ago. It cured me, I thought, but maybe the immune system is never completely cured. As of this afternoon, our Town Council - and with it I assume all other Councils - is all but closed down, with a kind of emergency cross-party cabinet to be convened, probably on a virtual basis, to deal with urgent and unavoidable matters. It is exhausting simply keeping up with the communications! I have a niggling concern that our Government will be perfectly happy to keep local/regional decision-makers in lockdown for as long as possible: after all, there won't be any scheduled elections will at least May 2021.
We have kept a reasonable stock of food but of course there is next to nothing we can pick from the garden in March. I was trying to do a delivery order of mainly fresh food (cos I will not be going into town to shop at the Market and indeed the Market may not be there for me to shop from) but I found that items, and even whole categories of items (e.g. eggs) were disappearing from the screen.
Heat is apparently effective against the virus if it's on your skin, but not necessarily if it's moved inside. We are trying a have a daily sauna to steam-clean, maybe a hot bath or shower would help, too.
By Monday morning, avalanches of events were being postponed or cancelled. News from a health researcher we know confirmed my concern that I am actually in a high-risk category for the dreaded virus, due to age, asthma and having been treated for cancer with chemotherapy about 15 years ago. It cured me, I thought, but maybe the immune system is never completely cured. As of this afternoon, our Town Council - and with it I assume all other Councils - is all but closed down, with a kind of emergency cross-party cabinet to be convened, probably on a virtual basis, to deal with urgent and unavoidable matters. It is exhausting simply keeping up with the communications! I have a niggling concern that our Government will be perfectly happy to keep local/regional decision-makers in lockdown for as long as possible: after all, there won't be any scheduled elections will at least May 2021.
We have kept a reasonable stock of food but of course there is next to nothing we can pick from the garden in March. I was trying to do a delivery order of mainly fresh food (cos I will not be going into town to shop at the Market and indeed the Market may not be there for me to shop from) but I found that items, and even whole categories of items (e.g. eggs) were disappearing from the screen.
Heat is apparently effective against the virus if it's on your skin, but not necessarily if it's moved inside. We are trying a have a daily sauna to steam-clean, maybe a hot bath or shower would help, too.
