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missbuster replied to your post “oh ho ho we in it now”
WHAT THAT IS VERY FAST we have three confirmed cases here and they are still travel-related. They moved our testing to a local hockey arena and out of the second hospital too.
Our first three were all travel-related… from vastly different origins. (NYC, which you’d expect, but then Orlando and a third out-of-state I forget?)
We got as high as nine confirmed cases, and then I think it just became clear that we were not going to be given anything like enough testing kits. I mean, obviously, it arrived here from NUMEROUS other points of origin, and since NYC is in fullblown Hotbed Of Pestilence mode, there’s just no resources left for us, the second-largest city in the state. (Before you get outraged, understand that we have literally half the population of two separate towns on Long Island (the way cities and towns are legally categorized has nothing to do with size), and in fact are the only the eighth most populous county in the state, just after Westchester, which is another Hotbed Of Pestilence. NYC is HUGE.)
We are not really surprised that there are no resources left for us. It’s obvious that most of the new cases are community spread, not from an outside point of infection, meaning that it’s loose now. There’s literally no point trying to track it; it’s too late to halt the spread.
They did update the list of exposures. Now not only our grocery store and our nearest Target is on the list, but also our liquor store. We checked our receipt; we were last there six days before the known-infected person.
But the list of exposures isn’t really much good, because it’s all a week ago or more. Of course it is! But it’s out there, in the wild. There’s nothing to do but treat everyone as potentially infected, and stay the fuck home, which is what I’m doing.
missbuster replied to your post “oh ho ho we in it now”
WHAT THAT IS VERY FAST we have three confirmed cases here and they are still travel-related. They moved our testing to a local hockey arena and out of the second hospital too.
Our first three were all travel-related… from vastly different origins. (NYC, which you’d expect, but then Orlando and a third out-of-state I forget?)
We got as high as nine confirmed cases, and then I think it just became clear that we were not going to be given anything like enough testing kits. I mean, obviously, it arrived here from NUMEROUS other points of origin, and since NYC is in fullblown Hotbed Of Pestilence mode, there’s just no resources left for us, the second-largest city in the state. (Before you get outraged, understand that we have literally half the population of two separate towns on Long Island (the way cities and towns are legally categorized has nothing to do with size), and in fact are the only the eighth most populous county in the state, just after Westchester, which is another Hotbed Of Pestilence. NYC is HUGE.)
We are not really surprised that there are no resources left for us. It’s obvious that most of the new cases are community spread, not from an outside point of infection, meaning that it’s loose now. There’s literally no point trying to track it; it’s too late to halt the spread.
They did update the list of exposures. Now not only our grocery store and our nearest Target is on the list, but also our liquor store. We checked our receipt; we were last there six days before the known-infected person.
But the list of exposures isn’t really much good, because it’s all a week ago or more. Of course it is! But it’s out there, in the wild. There’s nothing to do but treat everyone as potentially infected, and stay the fuck home, which is what I’m doing.
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Date: 2020-03-20 12:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-20 10:36 am (UTC)We had to get coffee creamer yesterday, and a man burst into the 7-11, removed his paper mask, and started talking, too loud and too fast, to those of us waiting in line because the sole cashier was preoccupied receiving a beer delivery.
"I was at Home Depot? Oh my god. My wife wants me to drill holes in the ceiling for ventilation. We came from New York, it's spreading in the subways there? Oh my god. We got a house here, now, we're waiting for all this to be over," and I'm like sir you are standing too close to me and talking too loud and I do not have the capacity to address the insanity of what you are saying but for the love of Christ put your fucking mask back on, why would you remove it the moment you're in proximity to people are you subscribing to the miasma theory of disease here???
But I did not say any of those things, I just sort of nodded and said "Good luck with that," but like
who
BUYS A HOUSE
to escape the middle of an epidemic??????
Anyway it's a long time since I talked to someone with that strong a downstate accent and I had to think for a moment, are they all that high-energy? We don't talk that fast here. No, he was probably on drugs. I mean. Not like I could judge.
Oh we've apparently had a rash of cocaine overdoses in our county. When I think I'm not handling the stress well I realize that at least I haven't overdosed on cocaine in this year of our lord 2020. (I'm too young to have even encountered coke when it was hip!!! and i'm 40!! what is these kids DOING)
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Date: 2020-03-20 01:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-03-20 03:11 pm (UTC)Anyway it's a long time since I talked to someone with that strong a downstate accent and I had to think for a moment, are they all that high-energy?
I've lived here over 20 years now (hard to believe) and I still think people who sound like that are angry or crazy and they really aren't. I get my feelings hurt at the local grocery store because of the tone of voice of some of the women who work there and it is all in me misreading the energy I perceive behind that pitch!!