Shelter-in-Place Part 3

Another week of shelter-in-place has gone by.  The Bay Area counties issued a new notice extending the previous shelter-in-place order through April, to the surprise of no-one, and added some new stipulations.  Mercifully, outdoor exercise is still permitted.

For the current global outlook, some locations are indeed starting to flatten the curve.  California has so far avoided inundated hospitals; the next couple of weeks are expected to be make-or-break here.  The UK is not looking so great and is adding increasing restrictions.  The Prime Minister just got admitted to hospital after failing to recover from coronavirus.

A bit of local good news, some friends successfully produced the first pandemic baby of our social circle.  A healthy baby boy, born into the strangest of times and blissfully unaware.  Another friend, currently living in Ireland, had a baby in January and her mother had arrived a few weeks ahead of the due date to help out, before it all kicked off.  During that period her own elderly mother died while China was on lock down.  It took three flights to return to China, during one of which it subsequently transpired she had been seated next to a covid-positive passenger.  A few weeks later, emerging from government-mandated detention with daily temperature checks, she finally returned home to Shanghai.

Achilles tendon is super wiffly, in a near-certain foreboding of injury, so running should be out for the near future.  Enjoyed a bike ride last weekend that would have been incredibly easy in my fitter days, and almost puked this time around.  Home workouts have been a joy, with zumba, HIIT and the newly-discovered Fitness Marshall.

Cautious optimism with respect to keeping my job, at least for the near term, and likely not at full pay.  Surprisingly happy with the structure the job affords during this crisis, it lends a focus and continuity, with no slack for boredom. 

The dialysis clinics where my partner works as a biomedical technician will start receiving covid patients in the upcoming days.  Exciting times.  Really we count our blessings daily that he still leaves the house for work such that we are not on top of one another all day long, unlike some less fortunate folks and their significant others.  

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