My Diminishing Neighborhood
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As I approached the store they told me it was "closed" (4 hours early) and that I could return another time.
So I walked away and took a drive to the chinese takeout place five stores down to a place devoid of customers, six or so take out orders ready to go, and all the employees sporting seafoam colored face masks.
We spoke briefly of the greatly diminished business lately and how the staff would likely take a week or two off in an effort to simply get away from the pandemic.
I have been taking a conservative course of colloidal silver nose drops in an effort to curtail acquiring the disease. My thoughts concerning this revolve around remembering not to be smug and bragging should I dodge the bullet and by the same token ... not going ballistic if I do contract the virus despite all my efforts at prophylaxis.
So I am not able to go to work unless it is a "true" emergency. I am told that catching up on work that has been precluded by other work simply does not qualify. I must say it chapped me for an hour or so but life is about getting past things so I let it all go.
It would seem that the COVID-19 pandemic is quite the disruptive affair courtesy of a country who would just as soon kill it's own people and us at their whim then send some idiot so-called "diplomat" to say how hurtful it is to state the truth on the public stage.
The Chinese would spin something they can't touch because it's out of their hands. At least the President understands the folly of all the outsourcing we've been doing to China and intends to put a stop to a lot of it.
I can't believe how stupid the legislative branch has been in this scenario.