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Three degrees
I don't usually write anything on a Monday or Tuesday because of fatigue and because there's rarely anything of interest re the gulag, except stuff I can't repeat.
But re what I said yesterday about our neighbours the orchestral admins; well, seems I and my workmates weren't the only ones to notice. Turns out some of them were at the performance where the person with the plague attended. There've been talks with the building manager and now all the common areas on our floor are going to be sterilised. That's any surface we're likely to touch and the dunnies. Hopefully that's as weird as they're going to get.
I've been trying to decide how many degrees of separation that is between me and the plague (sounds more suitably dramatic than Covid-19). I think it's three, yes, me to an example member of the WASO office and from that person to the one at the performance who's got it?
For my part, I'm not particularly worried. I've had some nasty bouts of flu (and other things) before and I've got no health problems in that regard. I am concerned by possibly passing it on to my mother, who is 89 but apart from taking the recommended health precautions, I don't know what else I can do. I figure I'll take hand sanitiser over there with me, well, if she still wants me to darken her door after I tell her this stuff :-)
Even the annual science fiction convention here in Perth, Swancon, has been cancelled and that's never happened in all the time it's been held. I've been attending - well, it would have been 40 years (Swancon 45) - so it feels rather strange. Even on occasions where I could only go for a day, usually because I was too strapped for cash at the time, it was always there.
9/11 changed the world.
It feels as though this virus is changing it again.
Interesting times.
But re what I said yesterday about our neighbours the orchestral admins; well, seems I and my workmates weren't the only ones to notice. Turns out some of them were at the performance where the person with the plague attended. There've been talks with the building manager and now all the common areas on our floor are going to be sterilised. That's any surface we're likely to touch and the dunnies. Hopefully that's as weird as they're going to get.
I've been trying to decide how many degrees of separation that is between me and the plague (sounds more suitably dramatic than Covid-19). I think it's three, yes, me to an example member of the WASO office and from that person to the one at the performance who's got it?
For my part, I'm not particularly worried. I've had some nasty bouts of flu (and other things) before and I've got no health problems in that regard. I am concerned by possibly passing it on to my mother, who is 89 but apart from taking the recommended health precautions, I don't know what else I can do. I figure I'll take hand sanitiser over there with me, well, if she still wants me to darken her door after I tell her this stuff :-)
Even the annual science fiction convention here in Perth, Swancon, has been cancelled and that's never happened in all the time it's been held. I've been attending - well, it would have been 40 years (Swancon 45) - so it feels rather strange. Even on occasions where I could only go for a day, usually because I was too strapped for cash at the time, it was always there.
9/11 changed the world.
It feels as though this virus is changing it again.
Interesting times.
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I also like simply "plague"so I'm using that. As in "the office's plague-ridden neighbours."
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I think one good point from all the precautions is that they'll also guard against the usual winter flus/colds etc. And of course you can get the flu vaccine for the usual suspects.
My mum's place is being very careful. It's not an aged care, rather an over 55s swanky residence where most of them are 70s or older. I figure I'm in the clear now and it was a very remote chance, but still. AFAIK none of the WASO's people got sick.
This is reminding me of Sam Pepys' diary (I read it online, posted on the actual dates) where he's talking about the plague in London. He reports tallies and info from various people and comments about people having closed themselves in, including his own doctor, who survived his self-isolation. And of course Sam himself and his family, were fine. They seemed to manage well, as well as they could considering it was 1665, and we've hopefully learned from them!
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