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Today in history; The USA’s first known lethal COVID-19 outbreak, at a Kirkland, Wash. nursing care center, is announced Feb. 29, 2020. https://t.co/VNrhkIgu3I
— Mike Lindblom (@MikeLindblom) February 29, 2024
NO! RantWoman is not exactly nostalgic for pandemic lockdown, but the item popped in RantWoman's Twitter.
Use the hash tags or the words COVID and Pandemic to find past RantWoman offerintgs.
From last year:
RantMom's retirement community is, cross fingers, coming out of 10 days of dining room closure because a cluster of RantMom's neighbors who all sat together in the dining room as well as 5 staff all recentlyy tested positive for COVID. This time it wasn't RantMom, but somehow there are anniversary vibes in the air.
(Four) years ago, many of RantWoman's Asian neighbors had already been masking for weeks.
There was the dinner with RantMom and her debate-watching buddy two weeks before..., the last name in the newspaper, the "i'm not surprised" phone conversation with the retirement community medical director while RantWoman was on a bus to buy cat food ahead of pending lockdowns. Here though are some idiosyncratic reflections:
Special shout-out to all the transit and delivery drivers and other essential workers who kept life sort of manageable.
The masks
RantWoman still has in various pockets, an assortment of masks:
--the folded bandana and ponytail holder effort RantWoman tried for awhile.
--The whcked out of new black T-shirt material items that RantWoman's blind nurse friend sent around to the local chapter of the WA council of the blind.
--Several different homemade and commercial cloth masks. A couple of the homemade styles were well-meant but not functional for instance because of ties made of slippery ribbon. Some of the commercial ones have sensible elastic at the ears though some of the elastic has long stretched beyond usefulness
--Several different paper disposable ones. RantWoman is not charmed by the mandate to buy paper masks in the first place. Cloth masks, while imperfect are better than nothing and in many cases more comfortable than paper ones. RantWoman also tends to save paper masks she has acquired, figuring they will be good in an emergency or at least interesting relics.
Mail order shoes
RantWoman is VERY glad both to have found a couple reliable mail order shoe options and to have a couple Nordstrom gift cards she needs to march down and spend for a real custom fit experience.
RantWoman has more to say about the inadequacy of online ad copy, the problem of fitting feet that are slightly different sized, and which footwear elements do or don't easily adjust. But not today.
Stimulus payment clothing
RantWoman feels VERY lucky to have been able to renew her entire wardrobe from the skin out with mail order options.
The Bed from Amazon
Previous bed installation adventures
Weird food notes:
RantWoman mostly did okay about food options or at least does not remember the worst frustrations.
RantWoman still has a whole unopened bag of spicy dried pea packets. RantWoman will either save them for the next disaster or one of these days reconstitute them and see what they can be turned into.
Other food note: a whole lot of Reese's peanut butter cups, curiously accompanied by weight loss, probably from drinking less soda and hopefully not from losing muscle mass.
The college admissions Interview questions:
RantWoman is an alumni interviewer and every year interviews a number of students applying to her alma mater. RantWoman finds the interviews really rewarding and the applicants have been gracious about answering RantWoman's standard question about how did they fare. Some found the period a time of intense personal growth, either from some kind of self-betterment or from figuring out what connections they really needed to preserve. Others just found online school a long slog. RantWoman wonders how the pandemic will look 20 years ago, the way others remember the 1968 democratic convention, the moon landing, the space shuttle catastrophes, 9/11....
And then there's the next disaster, whatever it is
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