No Time to Die... from COVID-19

[LynnInDenver]

Look at how many provinces in Canada have banned assemblies of more than two, three, or five people who aren't related to each other.

Look at how many businesses in Canada have been closed altogether because they aren't essential services - food, medicine, medical gear, or the manufacture or shipment thereof (and, more recently, daycare for the children of doctors and nurses).

Look at how many parks are closed in Canada.

Look at how many businesses have retooled to make protective gear or hand sanitizer.

Then tell me Colorado's overreacting. I'd laugh in those people's faces if I could get within two meters of them.

Yeah, here's the thing. I know Colorado isn't overreacting to this thing, those people aren't watching the numbers and what's happened in Italy and France, they're just concerned that they're having to cut their spending habits considerably for the literally foreseeable future. Does it suck? Yes. Would it suck more for me to attend the funerals of perhaps a half dozen family and friends at the minimum? Oh fuck yes.

Hells, we're strong introverts here, and the strain of being forced instead of voluntary shut-ins is actually starting to be felt. We've both seen at most a half dozen people in the past week outside ourselves, me being five to six people at work, and I don't even see them that much because I'm working in a completely separate part of the building from everyone else, and my husband, if he's seen that many, it's been pretty much at the grocery store. Everyone else it's been voice or email. Even we need to get out and see people on a semi-regular basis, and we haven't seen any of our friends in over a month. But we're not whining at the government to please let us out to see even one person, we know what's at stake.