I use mostly coconut milk, but occasionally soy and/or oatmilk in my baking all the time, and it turns out splendidly. As in, if I didn't tell you that it was dairy-free, you wouldn't know it.

Coconut milk would have been my first choice, but that was not an option. It's good to know that you've had success with oatmilk.

Casserole sounds good, askye

Texas gov is still not ordering a statewide stay-at-home order. I can almost see the argument that we're too big and varied for a single ordnance.

Unlike California....?

I said almost.

Random re: mascara raccoon eyes, the *only* thing that ever made me completely stop going to bed with mascara still on was inheriting my gran's hand-embroidered and hand-tatted lace-edged pillowcases. Nuh-uh would I get anything on those!

Also, I will and have cut anybody's hair. I cut several boyfriends' hair. I cut hair for everybody in the band, and their girlfriends. I cut my roommate's hair, and her boyfriend's hair, and his friends' hair. And half the dorm. I cut my kids' hair, and their friends and girlfriends' hair. I cut H's hair until he talked me into letting him buzz it--which he loves and I still don't, but...his head.

I can trim my own ends when my hair is collar-length or longer, and I used to razor-cut my nape and neck when I had it short-short for skating. I can cut my own bangs, and the top. And if I could take my head off and set it on the counter in front of me I could cut *all* my own hair, but I can't. I had it cut very short for reasons, so short I had to double-tiny-barrette it out of my face while the top-front grew out. Just when it was at a length to do something with the warnings started and I hesitated to go in for a cut. And now it's too late.

Ah well. There's always the ponytail, if the quarrantine lasts that long. Or I practice contortionism with a couple of mirrors and go for cut myself.

The casserole was pretty decent. Matthew's brother in law is doing better at this point, no fever so that is really good. Of course I'm the only one who thinks we should stay in self quarantine. We need to get groceries and the only real option is Instacart or Walmart delivery/pick up. Or have someone go out and I think that is the option that is going to win and I'm done arguing about why if we were exposed to someone who ran a fever for several days we shouldn't go places.

McMasters ordered non essential close contact businesses to close, not all non essential businesses. I'm expecting the next order will be ALL non essential businesses. Although an emergency alert went out saying this and to stay home.

I can almost see the argument that we're too big and varied for a single ordnance.

If New York and California can do it...

They had to. Part of the issue with New York (and I presume elsewhere) is that a lot of city folk are bringing their infected butts out to their vacation homes, in the Catskills and Adirondacks and, I dunno, coastal Rhode Island.

(Note this doesn't just apply to New Yorkers, but their license plates are easy to spot. I never thought I'd be glad that I finally got Rhody plates on my car, after decades of hanging on to my Jersey plates.)

Part of what is driving me nuts is the number of people, both regular folks and things like mayors and governors, who want to wait and then give reactive responses. The idea of not shutting down areas that aren't showing outbreaks yet. The problem is once the outbreak starts to show up, you've squandered your best opportunity to control it. Most of the current studies are showing that at least 25% of the transmission is coming from people who are completely asymptomatic, or in the first 48 hours of infection, when again, they aren't showing outward signs. So waiting to see the outbreak is too late. Proactive, nationwide measures are one of the best ways to control this.

Right? It looks like, overall, Ohio is doing well on flattening the curve, but then it was in the 60s for the past few days here and there were people playing baseball on the fields around the corner. So, y'know, any gains we make as a whole (country/state/city) are going to be in spite of the jackwagons who think the rules don't apply to them.

With the way the streets in my neighborhood are laid out, the area right in front of my house is where the neighborhood kids often come to play. A few days ago I was sitting on my porch, and there were about five or six kids there, maybe ages 8-12. I could overhear some of their conversation, and they'd clearly been told the rules for social distancing, and were trying to follow the "six feet apart" rule while running around, though sometimes they forgot. They were doing pretty well for kids that age trying to follow a rule like that, though. Then a mother came by with a baby and a preschooler, and the preschooler definitely knew these older kids, and she ran right up to them and started talking to them and wanting to play. I noticed one of the older girls glance at the little girl's mother like, "Is this OK?" and the little girl's mother just came right up and talked to all the kids from a normal talking distance, not making any attempt to even acknowledge social distancing. Why could this adult not even follow the rules as well as a bunch of kids could?

Essential oils?