back to Quarantine Normal?
The pressing matters regarding the house, the condo, my sister visiting, and money -- have all been taken care of, at least facially and for now. There's even nothing on my work calendar until Monday, although the Monday deadline is significant and could require that I work on Sunday if my teammates can't pull their shit together before then. Things should slow down next week for the holiday.
The condo shower plumbing is now better than it was before, even before it started leaking, and I spent some time cleaning the bathroom after the plumber left. I'll spend more time cleaning the bathroom and the rest of the condo soon -- especially when I can be here for two nights, I will clean everything top to bottom if I can stay here an extra day -- it won't take long, small condo -- but that's probably the Fri-Sun after Turkey Dinner. If I'm here only one night, the next morning I'm always having some amount of transition anxiety about cleaning up from the night before, so I don't usually get to the more long-term cleaning of surfaces. But when I'm here two nights, the first morning I should be good to do the long-term cleaning.
We're getting more good news about the COVID-19 vaccine candidates, at least from the companies producing them. We still need the federal regulators to look at their applications. But it is getting more realistic that at least one vaccine could receive emergency approval before the end of this year. Then it would be a matter of time before everybody who wants the vaccine could get it. So sometime next year? There's still the possibility that the regulators won't approve these candidates once they can look at the data for themselves, or that slow-acting safety issues will arise. And we're still going to see tens of thousands more deaths in the US, if not hundreds of thousands more, before the vaccinations will make a difference.
The condo shower plumbing is now better than it was before, even before it started leaking, and I spent some time cleaning the bathroom after the plumber left. I'll spend more time cleaning the bathroom and the rest of the condo soon -- especially when I can be here for two nights, I will clean everything top to bottom if I can stay here an extra day -- it won't take long, small condo -- but that's probably the Fri-Sun after Turkey Dinner. If I'm here only one night, the next morning I'm always having some amount of transition anxiety about cleaning up from the night before, so I don't usually get to the more long-term cleaning of surfaces. But when I'm here two nights, the first morning I should be good to do the long-term cleaning.
We're getting more good news about the COVID-19 vaccine candidates, at least from the companies producing them. We still need the federal regulators to look at their applications. But it is getting more realistic that at least one vaccine could receive emergency approval before the end of this year. Then it would be a matter of time before everybody who wants the vaccine could get it. So sometime next year? There's still the possibility that the regulators won't approve these candidates once they can look at the data for themselves, or that slow-acting safety issues will arise. And we're still going to see tens of thousands more deaths in the US, if not hundreds of thousands more, before the vaccinations will make a difference.