I don't want to alarm anyone. I'm not usually a person who panics. But stay home as long as you possibly can. If you can have something delivered to you-- do that instead. If someone offers to shop for you and leave the groceries on your doorstep with no contact, accept their help and wipe everything down when you bring it in. I meant to fill my car with gasoline but I was so freaked out by the behavior of others that I completely forgot. I have 1/4 tank and usually stay full for emergency situations. I suppose I'll have to go out tomorrow and fill up. At least I can pump my own gas with gloves on my hands and use the car and pumps as a physical barrier to avoid anyone getting near. People are acting strange and there's this eerie feeling in the air out there. I don't like it. I want nothing more than to wake up tomorrow and find out this has all been a bizarre dream.
ETA: And I hope you feel better soon. I'll say a prayer for you.
MOO.
Yeah, NYC is releasing (?) homeless people who should in fact not be released from wherever they are in care, IMO; based upon what I see when I walk down the local streets on my daily constitutional.
I'm thinking the next time I go out to walk I'm pocketing my self-protect alarm and eye-poker (seems odd to call it "brass knuckles" as it really isn't, but then again functionally it is, lol. It's shaped like a cat's head, so it looks less like brass knuckles. The "eye poker" is the peaks that form his ears).
I actually saw a man crossing the street the other day, who was legit roundhousing with himself. It was pretty scary. He literally went across the street corner windmilling and punching the air with his whole body. I kept too far away to determine if/that he was "really" homeless; but if he's not homeless, then he's one of those people whom the current situation is clearly pushing over the edge, if he wasn't.
I'm also engaging the hotel lock addition on my apartment door (I have it up, but rarely use it). It's one of those that allows you to peek in, but won't let people force their way past it. My door and its jamb are both metal, thankfully; so not so easy to tear it out.
My birthday will be Wednesday. I'm thinking it won't be very festive. The current plan for celebration is a self-spiked Slurpee, if 7-11 stays open. I know people have a lot larger things to worry about right now, but I do like to have SOMEthing to show it's a celebration...
Also, the stockists at my local Whole Foods yesterday, based upon what they were saying in the aisles, were. not. happy. that they were still sitting on the job; and starting to feel that their doing so was a sign the company could give a dang about their well-being.
So just as a warning, I'd keep your local food stocks up as long as one feasibly can; because while they may find enough broke currently unemployed people to replace them in the jobs, I could certainly understand if they're not the only grocery chain store employees who also would like to be sheltering-in-place, instead of out in the open exposed to germs.
