Officially "shelter at home" here through April 7. Doesn't impact me much, I was pretty much already doing that, but it's official.

In regard to the fathers (any mothers?) who are not taking precautions

My mother definitely thinks that being out and about and seeing just one person at a time is fine. She has started washing her hands with soap, at least???

My boss just sent out the company-wide permission okaying WFH if that works best for people's individual situations. I think I'm going to continue working at the office as long as it's open though. There are less than 10 people on site, we don't deal with clients in person, and I share a bathroom with one other employee.

My 83-year-old mother quickly made the decision to stay at home. I was so proud of her. She was well stocked up on everything. She went for her daily walk outside. I figured she was set.

TODAY SHE TELLS ME SHE'S GETTING HER HAIRCUT TOMORROW.

Her hairdresser called. They were going to shut down the shop today for who knows how long, which would make my mother miss her appointment later this week. D knew my mother was due for a cut and color. She'd take her tomorrow at 9am, without anyone else in the shop.

I told her she couldn't. I reminded her that she was the one who decided to stay in and she was right. She told me to mind my own business. She said D wouldn't expose her.

Now, my mother is a smart woman, well-informed, rational. I reminded her that they think it's being spread by asymptomatic people, and that D has a lot of clients. She's been working with the public. Our county has the highest Covid-19 count in the state.

There was no getting through to her, even though when I forbid (forbade?) my 21 year-old from going to her friend's house this past weekend, my mother said I was absolutely right.

Later, my older son called her. He couldn't sway her. Next, my daughter called her. She couldn't sway her. I finally called her again and talked her out of it.

It was worse than dealing with the 21-year-old.

People I went to high school with were happily posting about getting their nails done this week.

Count me among those who cannot fathom that Ryan and Owen aren't still 6 years old.

I'm trying to persuade my 70 year old sister to stop going in to work. The same sister who told me last week that she'd "decided" she was going to die from coronavirus. She can work from home, she's annoyed at her coworkers for not taking reasonable precautions, why tf won't she just stay home.

Me, I'm not going anywhere or interacting F2F with anyone. It's a little disturbing how much this doesn't bother me.

I'm trying to persuade my 70 year old sister to stop going in to work. The same sister who told me last week that she'd "decided" she was going to die from coronavirus.

Pretty sure that tomorrow's Skype therapy session is going to be raging/weeping about my stupid, stupid 78-year-old father with heart disease and diabetes who's just fine continuing to work at Kroger WHEN HE DOESN'T NEED TO. I'm so angry at him that I don't want to talk to him.

Me, I'm not going anywhere or interacting F2F with anyone. It's a little disturbing how much this doesn't bother me.

Yeah, 6 years of freelancing from home have prepared me well. Literally nothing has changed about my day-to-day routine.

We're doing pretty well here until 3:30 in the afternoon when ltc becomes a crank monster and my anxiety starts to really skyrocket. TCG is getting home by 5. So, that hour and a half is really hard. Then my anxiety is spiking again before bedtime. Not sure why except my usual brain worrying about all the things when I should be sleeping.

Nothing has really changed for Matthew and his mom. It's changed that I am not going to work but I've had so many times in my life where I self isolated for various reasons that the only real difference is having 2 people in the house and the whole world also self isolating.

People I went to high school with were happily posting about getting their nails done this week.

UGH.

My town (and my mother's nearby town) have shut down all "personal care" services like hair and nail salons.

I'm pretty sure her town had already made the call to shut it down when D offered to open the shop for her tomorrow. (She's not the owner but she's worked there forever.)

I was two years behind D in high school. She was my hairdresser for a long time, too. We're not hang out friends, but have a friendly relationship. I think if I saw her right now, I'd shake her, if not for the whole social distancing thing.