Hello from self quarantine!

[nrgburst]

We are in our 3rd week of quarantine here, and still fine. Starting to run low on TP (which we had gotten before the crazy panic buying) but hopefully stores will get more soon? I pop out for groceries about twice a week and always look, but the aisles are bare still, which is a bit insane. 

We have the usual homeschool routine going and I'm thankful for the extra online resources popping up since I'm thinking this is going to go longer than we had originally expected. The kids play together better than they used to anyway, especially when they are on the same game and on iPads side by side, so we aren't going nuts yet. We took them on a hike a few days ago, and otherwise keep our outside time to playing jumprope in the apartment courtyard. Husband still has work, although they'll be cutting back on flights as of next month. People keep asking if we worry about him getting infected, but the cockpit actually has a different airsource than the cabin/passengers (for safety/terrorism reasons) and he doesn't come into direct contact with anybody but the other pilot anyway. So not terribly worried? 

Japanese infection numbers are plateauing, but that may still be due to undertesting. Still, Japanese are very good at listening to directions and acting for the well being of the group, and since women and children have been mostly at home for the last couple of weeks, hopefully the spread has actually slowed. 

It's scary watching this pandemic roll into the relatively disconnected part of Canada I'm from, but nowhere is actually disconnected nowadays, is it? From what I can tell, my family's battened down the hatches. My mom works with mostly elderly, and she's taken ten days off to help with the social distancing measures. 

So I'm trying to just stiff upper lip this all and continuing with March Meta Matters and my Batcat fic. I've earmarked five more pieces to clean up and re-post and I'll be writing one original meta post by month's end. My word count for March is probably going to be impressive anyway! :D

Hope you are all doing okay, wherever you are! 

Comments

[rhoda_rants]

Hey, good to hear from you! I was wondering how you were holding up down there.

I'm on Day One of self-quarantine myself. My workplace sort of shut down but didn't (no customers inside, they've set up a curbside service, but we're still being asked to come in for our usual shift times). I went in Monday and Tuesday and then I asked my manager to let me work from home (I brought some projects I can access through the company's shared Google drive and/or my work thumb drive home) OR I'll just take leave, depending on whether the director approves it. So yeah, I'm home for the rest of this week at least, and hopefully they'll come to the conclusion of, "Yeah, we should definitely send people home," after the weekend.

Glad to hear your numbers are holding steady. It's so hard to tell though. In the state, our confirmed cases are climbing by about 10 each day. Probably will be even more now that they've got drive-through testing facilities up and running. I'm staying home because my mom, who lives with me, is a high-risk person and I don't want to bring anything home with me.

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I mean, they are still creeping up, and we are in a Red Zone prefecture. So it's Not Good, but most of us have been home doing the right thing since the government took steps fairly quickly. So the aging population here will probably have a better chance than Italy's did. :( Nobody in tent hospitals or being ventilated in hallways yet, anyway, although we were in the first wave.

I'm glad my mom has stopped working. She primarily does home visits to elderly clients and she has diabetes and recurrent cellulitus herself. I just wish my stepdad would stop going out every day.

[wheatear]

Glad to hear you're doing well! It sounds like the situation in Japan is starting to get under control? That's hopeful news.

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Honestly, I don't know that for sure- they may be purposely undertesting in the hopes that the Olympics will still go on this summer if numbers look okay. But Japan had a front row seat with SARS too, so they were a bit faster to respond than some other countries just due to experience.