Fingers crossed for you. We're not so quick here- 79 cases in my province alone, where our drug dealing premier only last week was encouraging people to travel during March break this week- but now the city has closed schools and daycares. My impression is that the smaller Asian countries at any rate learned the lesson of SARS and swine flu better than the West.
Their thoughts were fleeting But ours were steady So we were ready When trouble came
Thank you! Good old Housman - I like him very much, but right now that poem is making me smile - he's so reliably in that frame of mind. (Or is it Terence, who's in that frame of mind?) I think I like your reworking of it better. :)
US is terrible. That's pretty much it. I'm fine. Or will be until, despite my hypervigilant handwashing, I get sick. I'm making the family take temps before we go out the door. But this is going to be long and ugly and conventional thinking is that we're about a week behind Italy but with even fewer ICU beds per thousand people. Oh well. Stay safe and healthy! It does not seem to have community spread where you are and that is a very good thing!
And to you, also, stay well and healthyThings could go in so many appalling directions from here; I trust not for you personally! - because of hand-washing and good nutrition and so on - but for the vulnerable in many countries (the homeless, most obviously, but also... ) and for societies as a whole if the idea that there are expendable people who shouldn't have health resources "wasted" on them gains ground. But maybe this all will throw into clear relief the value of public health systems
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We haven't had any in the City by the Sea yet, but it is all anyone can talk about. The Port Fairy Folk Festival was last weekend, which is huge; I suspect it would have been cancelled if it was this weekend.
May it just not turn up in your city! :) I have such mixed feelings about it - I guess I'm not alone there. But I'm playing it pretty safe - wearing a mask in shops and on buses - well, it's now compulsory to wear them on buses and anywhere "public" - local streets don't count. And I've taken to wearing gloves on the bus, too, because hundreds of hands will have touched those handholds etc. That said - there's not all that many of us on the buses these days anyway! I had a bus to myself the other day, for half the journey home.
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Their thoughts were fleeting
But ours were steady
So we were ready
When trouble came
to paraphrase Housman
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I don't know the Housman; I must go and look for it.
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I'd link but my hyperactive mouse doesn't let me highlight and copy anymore.
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I think I like your reworking of it better. :)
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I have such mixed feelings about it - I guess I'm not alone there. But I'm playing it pretty safe - wearing a mask in shops and on buses - well, it's now compulsory to wear them on buses and anywhere "public" - local streets don't count. And I've taken to wearing gloves on the bus, too, because hundreds of hands will have touched those handholds etc. That said - there's not all that many of us on the buses these days anyway! I had a bus to myself the other day, for half the journey home.
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