I'm washing my hands more and trying not to touch my face (but with allergies, man is that hard - your nose threatens to drip or your eyes itch). I even opened up the package of disinfecting wipes and wiped down my keyboard and mouse (even though I am the only one who uses them).
Also wondered: could the virus glom onto a piece of mail? I don't know enough about it to know. I have heard rumors it can last "days" on a surface like a phone, why should a magazine or bill be any different?
I am alarmed by the fact that Italy has locked down, Austria is talking about it, and more and more campuses are just...closing...after spring break.
I wonder if in the future, digital archaeologists will find our blogs and learn how civilization ended, and learn the source of all the arcane "cleanliness" rituals they do, which have taken the place of any actual religion.
Very, very hard not to feel doomy. Expecting I will lose at least one person I love to this and that's one person too many. I have had way too many losses recently and I know my anxiety over this thing is partly that. But also, it's a fear that "this is the end of everything you knew" - that instead of going antiquing or to a craft store for fun in the future, I stay holed up in my house and wait for the government-delivered box of provisions, and have to hope maybe there's some canned fruit or tea in there, things like that....I can go to the dystopian place very fast.
It's alarming how I went from, just over a week ago, saying "No, I'm still gonna go visit my mom over Spring Break, it's fine" to "holy crap, I might never see my mom again, I might never get to leave my little town again, public things like concerts or going to a bookstore will be done for forever"
My only hope is they come up with a safe effective vaccine sooner than the 18 months I've seen...
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