Wednesday, April 1, 2020 Total Confirmed: 937,567 Total Deaths: 47,255 Total Recovered: 184,113 Time doesn’t mean all that much anymore. We eat when we’re hungry, and go to bed when we’re tired. We ride our bikes when it’s the late afternoon kind of time. We ride around and around until we feel like going home. Sherlock loves this new routine. We holler ‘Good Boy, Sherlooock!’ when he runs on the sidewalk because he may need Read more…
Tuesday, March 31, 2020 Total Confirmed: 859,556 Total Deaths: 42,331 Total Recovered: 169,599 I wonder if everyone has vitamin C. I wonder if people are going to die in their homes from scurvy, their gums swollen and their skin bleeding. Eating nothing but all those noodles and oatmeal and rice they thought they needed after they ran out of oranges a while back. I called my insurance company first thing this morning. It just dawned Read more…
Monday, March 30, 2020 Total Confirmed: 785,979 Total Deaths: 37,809 Total Recovered: 158,973 Movie Sets are closed and we wonder if they’ll get to release any new movies or TV shows this year. More and more people are baking and worrying about their hair, so there’s been a run on yeast and hair color. When all this is over, hair stylists will have so much work to do to fix the mess everyone made trying Read more…
Sunday, March 29, 2020 Total Confirmed: 722,431 Total Deaths: 33,996 Total Recovered: 146,669 Germany is on track for 70% of their population to get covid. They expect 80% of those needing intensive care to be denied care. It’s possible the death toll with reach one million. No one put their trash out today. I guess everyone is home tomorrow, so they’ll put it out in the morning. Mass Changes of Routine. We are such creatures Read more…
Saturday, March 28, 2020 Total Confirmed: 664,608 Total Deaths: 30,845 Total Recovered: 138,595 And I didn’t sleep that well. I snored up a symphony. I woke up when Aidan tried to softly brush my face to get me to roll over. He miscalculated where I was at in the dark, and instead, whacked me in the nose. Another time, I woke up with him feeling my foot as though it were a foreign object. He Read more…
Friday, March 27, 2020 Total Confirmed: 597,304 Total Deaths: 27,363 Total Recovered: 130,473 I woke up and my throat had something going on and I knew for sure I was dying. I went to the bathroom and had a glass of water and then I was fine. But I’m sure I’m not the only one. Everyone thinks they’ve got the virus if coffee goes down the wrong pipe and they have to cough. Or everyone Read more…
Thursday, March 26, 2020 Global Status: 529,614 Active Cases: 384,446 Recovered Cases: 121,454 Fatal Cases: 23,714 Everyone likes to say “flatten the curve” 5,000 times a day and it’s intensely annoying. Like “moving forward” and “let’s circle back” and “there’s no I in team”. STOP IT. Find another way to express the message. You’re Driving Me Up the Wall. You’re making me space out for the rest of the monologue because You’re Triple Driving Me Read more…
Wednesday, March 25, 2020 Global Status: 471,036 Recovered Cases: 114,224 Fatal Cases: 21,284 It was snowing again. I dreamed of ragged people, starving, sunken eyes incapable of reaching emotion. I woke up sweaty; unsure if it was a dream or a premonition. The blackness squirmed in my bowels while the world outside seemed so unreachable. What if the blackness spread to my head? What if it already had? What if none of this is real? Read more…
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Global Status: 422,829 Recovered Cases: 109,102 Fatal Cases: 18,907 We’re not doing anything, but everything feels too hard. It feels too hard to sit in the house. It feels too hard to not go to the store or out to dinner or to a friend’s house. It feels too hard to not do anything. Aidan says he’s even tired of petting the cat. So we ate lunch. Why don’t dogs eat Read more…
Monday, March 23, 2020 Global Status: 379,080 Active Cases: 260,133 Recovered Cases: 102,423 Fatal Cases: 16,524 The sunrise was the kind of brilliant tangerine I thought I’d only see in my paint-by-number painting. It bled through the curtains when I pushed them aside to see. Glorious and clear and pure and so pleased with the world’s current attempt to rid itself of humanity. I smiled at it nonetheless and it kissed my face right back. Read more…