[covid] this is fine.jpg, part I've-honestly-lost-count-at-this-point

it's going great

who knew that keeping stores open, forcing students to show up for in person classes, and hardly ever giving anyone the ability to wfh even in jobs were it would easily be doable, because "it's vitally important to keep the economy going!!" would have deadly consequences

who knew

have we learned nothing from, err, other countries??

(deaths are also reaching new sad records almost daily)

now they're like "uuuuh maybe we could close stores from the 20th onward???" and at least older students will be able to have online classes for the last school week of the year

god

we did so well in the spring! we know how to get this curve to slope downwards again! But nooooo, pre-holiday profits are more important.

oh thank fuck they're at least closing stores (excluding stuff like grocery stores, laundromats, the post office etc) starting Wednesday

also, no private fireworks on new year's (and the sale of fireworks that's usually allowed starting a few days before that date is forbidden too)

it's not exactly getting better

my guess is that the store closing measures from earlier this week will help, and then people's holiday visits will make it so much worse -.-

I'm lucky to be in a situation where I can pre-emptively quarantine but my plan before I found out that I could was to just spend a lot of time videochatting with my mum

(the only person I've seen irl this past week is the old lady from the ground floor who was using the laundry room, and I stayed away from her too)

I sure as hell am not visiting my father this year because he's already announced his plans to visit his wife's mother and her sister and her sister's husband and her sister's son and her sister's son's girlfriend and her sister's daughter and also his two neighbours and who even knows who else

and I don't care that it's "just two gatherings that both fall within the rules"

I can't stop him from doing that but I can make sure I don't contribute and don't carry any tiny little viruses back to my mum

also, somehow, our daily deaths curve is worse
we had them down to single digits for months!