I have anxiety all the time Marya about my brother. He has COPD and
other health issues. He struggles to breathe on good days. He is home a
lot but his wife runs here, there and everywhere. She seems to think he
is safe as long as he is at home. She doesn't seem to realize she could
take it home with her.
Our province just went back into the orange phase today. It is not the
full lock down (which is the red phase) but we are supposed to stay at
home as much as possible.
As for food, I am actually tired of eating chocolates and chicken bones
(this is a sweet, sugary pink coating with a cinnamon filling made by a
local and 100 plus year old company called Ganongs. I don't know why
this candy is called chicken bones). I am ready for a bland diet of
potatoes, pasta and pancakes and stuff like that.
I didn't know anyone personally who had Covid until my daughter-in-law's
niece got sick. But they live in Norway so not anyone close where I
live. She is 18 or 19. What is scary is now we are beginning to hear
abut 40- year -olds dying from it.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Marya F" <maryaf@xxxxxxxxx>
To: daveworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 1/5/2021 2:53:24 PM
Subject: [daveworld] Re: Trudging Through The Petri Dish
Gahhh. Tacos sound great (and/or it's heading towards lunch time).
Stay safe out there. I'm probably overly worried about this new strain. But I am worried. Mostly about my mom who just allows herself to be exposed. She thinks she's being safe, but seriously. She is still going into her office every day (she and my stepfather own the place. They go in as do support staff and construction workers.). Heavy sigh.
One of our friends is a GP at Kaiser in LA. One of their ER docs died this morning of covid.
I'm so ready for this to be over.
In the meantime, tacos!
Marya
(new year and hovering around inbox zero, so not so overwhelmed by email at this moment.)
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 10:47 AM Scott Ransom <mr.ransom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Well, I decided that while I could technically last many more months without going to the store, they would be months of probably nutritionally deficient filler like ramen and spaghetti. Which is fine for a while, but not really a good long-term lifestyle. And so, rather than die of malnutrition instead of covid, I decided this morning around 4:30 to head for the supermarket.
While I'm sure clouds of sticky viral mist are now common outside my door, I think what must have been freak weather conditions allowed me to slip between or around them. Of course, I may just be thinking of the familiar clouds of the old virus. The new, evolved, and much more infectious clouds are invisible without infrared goggles, and Amazon sold out of those, like, immediately. Although I bathed myself in x-rays and a light spray of sulfuric acid when I got home, we'll still have to see in five to ten days if food was worth it. It may not have been.
Taco's tonight, though. Also, they were dumping Christmas candy, so I may have overbought on waxy holiday themed chocolates as well.
Scott
