Whoa Keef your dog is shiny! She's a gorgeous girl.
Been surreal up here in the VT/MA/NH corner lands. My two best friends have been told to stay home from work. One is a teacher, and her school has shut down. The other is in industry, and her mom (not sick at all) was up visiting from Florida this week so HR told her to telecommute for the next 14 days. My job is rumour central. 300+ employees in the building and upper management somehow all has Lysol wipes on their desks. Meanwhile I'm out back diluting bleach and calling in orders from my bulk chemical supplier for extra 99% isopropanol and listening to floor workers complain that we aren't valued. Okay it didn't take a virus to tell us that, here's some bleach, I can't do anything else for ya, sorry; I'm hourly too and don't have a magic wand.
Went to Hinsdale NH Wal-Mart after work to buy phone minutes and see what's up. ZERO remaining stock of anything you could wipe your 4ss with: tp, napkins, tissues, paper towels... GONE. People dragging two full carts of supplies. Kinda weird to see what folks consider supplies for end times... junk food and cereal? Ok guys cool cool. The diabeetus gonna get you before any virus even has a chance. I picked up some chicken and ground beef; I'm well stocked on rice, dehydrated veggies, and dry beans. Meat got repacked for the chest freezer.
Also hit up the state packie for a couple handles of potato juice and the chicks in line behind me had two carts full of cheap fruity vodka and boxed pink Moscato. How can you tell the difference between COVID and a hangover? Think they're gonna find out.
The tobacco n beer shop next door was just as bad. Line ten deep and a couple guys had brought in a hand truck and had it loaded with about 20 bricks of keystone. Wouldnt be my first choice for a last meal, is all I can say. Grabbed a carton of spirits and peaced out.
Not even going to get into the guy in a jacked up pickup truck with a 4 foot political name flag doing burnouts in the parking lot. What, WHY??!!! Because new Hampshire, that's why. This is normal. In the sort of way that the sunrise is normal on a day you know a cat5 hurricane is 20 miles off the coast and bearing down fast.
We're seeing the edge of the storm here now, and I'm not interested in going shopping in public for a few months.
In other news, I drive i91 to and from work, and the last week has been a steady northbound stream of nice cars with ny/ct plates. My bets are on the first epicenter being a ski resort where some infectious new Yorkers fled to their condos and treated it like vacation... why stay in the condo when there's a bar full of hot hedge fund managers downstairs? The 1% quarantine-cum-vacation. Bottoms up, beyatches. Telecommuting with a view? Ok enjoy the slow internet! Page loading? Might as well go back downstairs for another round of Lawson's and some person-to-persom transmission.
Surreal. All of it.