Huh. City hall is closed. Didn't think about that.

Our town hall is closed, too.

If you can spare some ~ma, would you please send it my sister's way? We had to shut down the bar and dining room tonight, and we can only do take out. She's stressed beyond belief because we have to lay people off, and she's trying to do as much as she can to help them out, but it's never enough. I can't take any of this off of her and I can't help in any other way, so hopefully a bit of ~ma will give her some relief.

This all sucks. I hate it.

I wish we could take these laid off workers and deploy them (paid) as needed and wanted by the people themselves, into the healthcare system. I bet people who work for a restaurant would be great at answering front line calls, Not so safe if they are worried, but we are prepping for disaster and I need to be doing my actual job to ensure the summer semester has students and not answering telemedicine calls and forwarding to providers. It has not come to that, but this is what we are hearing we may be doing.

Sophia, your idea makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, that kind of sense seems to be in short supply these days.

The office sent out a "clarification" of the telework policy. Half of us are required to telework at a time, rotating every 2 weeks as to who has to telework. The clarification is that managers are supposed to encourage everybody to telework that can, even if it means that 100% of a unit is teleworking.

For me, commuting with CIDP is a major undertaking that leaves me physically wiped out. So I call this a silver lining.

Confirmed COVID19 exposure at work, other building, couple dozen ID'd as exposed. Building closed. Good morning to you too, get used to it.

Our town and village municipal offices are all closed to the public, and the community center has been converted into a food distribution center (closed to the public except for drive-up food pickup).

NYU just announced the rest of the semester will be remote and all dorms and dining halls will close. What the hell are the international students supposed to do??

Ugh, sarameg. I'm sorry.

We're up, we're dressed, and I'm reading emails while ltc works on the worksheets I printed up today (A St Patrick's Day color sheet), the letter 'B', and the number '1'). We have too many baked goods at the moment. So, I'm trying to decide what cooking project we can work on today.

It also says that people over 70 should stay indoors

I fail to see how a walk outdoors without kissing passersby can be a bad thing. I reject this.

This is going to be so painful for so many small businesses and workers. Not sure how the expanded unemployment and credits thing will work out. We are in uncharted territory. I do think some of the social distancing routines will remain for some time. We have been hearing about superbugs and so forth for a while and a lot of people needed to learn to wash their hands.

I don't see any difference here in restaurant use. Our main street, which is lined with outdoor eateries, seems to be as busy as ever. Beaches are theoretically closed, but not so much in reality. The newspapers show that many places have gone to take out only, but not all, and it hasn't been mandated.

This is a different kind of Spring Break in Florida for sure.

And.... I am off to vote now. Whee!

If I didn't send ltc out with TCG every day to walk or ride her bike, we'd all lose our minds. I'm considering taking a drive after TCG gets home from work today. Not going anywhere, just driving around for a bit blaring some loud music.