Monday, March 16, 2020

Limbo

Spent the day in quasi-quarantine at home. The City updates the case count daily (with a major caveat), but weirdly no information is provided about where these cases are, or who the seven people who have already died were. I've yet to see a picture with medics in sci-fi scary hazmat suits, just lots of shots of otherwise crowded places vacant. My guess is that nobody knows how many people in the City are really infected, and there's neither time nor test kits for finding out. (Thank you, Donald Trump.) The operating assumption seems to be that everyone might be infected, and we should all behave as if we are: stay at home if possible so as not to be unwitting spreaders of the virus. It's a strange limbo. I guess we'll see what's happening when we have to.