Friday, April 17, 2020
Global Confirmed: 2,243,512
Global Deaths: 154,209
People are making lists of Permanent Closures. Lakeside Casino, little sandwich shops, landmark businesses. Places that make a town a town. A city a city.
Chicken Wing sales are tanking because there’s no sports. No drunken idiots whooping and hollering at a television while they sit in a little building, ordering just one more pitcher.
Masks are becoming a sense of Individual Style. This guy has a red bandana, that girl has a Hello Kitty mask. This one has skull and crossbones, and that one has sweet little cartoon cows and dairy cattle. Every style of fabric you can think of. All homemade.
Soft pinks and dark blues and snowflakes and American flags. I want an RBG mask.
And there’s tutorials on Facebook about how to make a mask out of a new sock and a paper towel.
And there’s plenty of judging on those who don’t wear one.
No one knows what strangers look like anymore. And ear savers are becoming a thing because everyone is wearing masks all the time and the back of everyone’s little ears and getting sore.
22 million people have filed unemployment claims.
People are finally saying Physical Distancing and Social Connecting instead of saying Social Distancing and leaving lonely people lonely.
And Mom isn’t coming out of her house until she gets a vaccine next year.