Pandemic Panic: Week 6

I won't lie: I've been enjoying the social distancing and home-isolation these past 6 weeks. We're pretty damn lucky that we are able to afford to stock up on food and toilet paper and weather the storm of partial unemployment (on Tina's part) and inability to go anywhere. Fuck I miss hiking! It sucks that we can't hit our usual spots this spring. The family took a great hike up Catherine Creek right at the start of the pandemic but before the stay-at-home order. I'm glad we got out at least that time. We've been staying busy nonetheless - I get to work from home, making sales calls from the den, next to the drums and guitars. Tina has been Master of he House, planning meals and cooking and staying on top of the kids schoolwork a well as being our point-person for food shopping. I'm glad to have her on my team. The kids have been great - they've been getting along pretty well, watching tv and doing their online school meet ups as well as playing Minecraft and Zelda: Breath of the Wild. We've had the bad mitten net set up and have been playing that every day. We get to walk around the park for a little exercise and sometimes we go throw some frisbee. I think we can probably survive this way for about a year before we start to lose our minds. I think it will really be a year before things get back to semi-normal. What do you think? Should we open up all business and just let the virus run its course or continue to isolate , to lessen the impact on our medical professionals and save lives in the short term. I like shutting down all business - I believe the economy i just a made-up story that we all agree to believe in - a strange division of resources and rules that we abide by and call the free market. I can't imagine that this is the only way to run a society, but it would be hard convincing a majority of he voting population to adopt a new mode of self-rule. Regardless of what your political affiliation is, I bet you would agree that our current government is failing, despite having some good folks working at all levels of it, government has become a gridlock circus, no longer working very well in the best interest of the people. I feel optimistic in the fact that almost everyone I know is an awesome person, despite any political views that conflict. I'm sick of politics but I'm not sick of people. People are cool and they like working together - somehow, we'll get through this and hopefully have a better perspective about life and proceed like Angels instead of Assholes.
OK I made this proto-grunge song today on the 4 track after we got back from the plant nursery  we got a couple of new blueberry bushes to plant in our yard.)
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