Roll Call - 4/4/20

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

It's Saturday, much of the world is staying home and avoiding anything that might be potentially hazardous to our health.  Social distancing is now a real thing, with tape on the floors of groceries and any place where people are doing business and need to remain at that safe, prescribed distance apart.

Let's follow the rules and be safe. And let us hear from you, tell us what's happening in your world.

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[hypatia-66.livejournal.com]

It's early evening here - the weekend is almost half over, but time doesn't fly when you're not really enjoying yourself. The days are getting longer, but so far not much warmer.

Temperatures were forecast to rise to the dizzy heights of 20C (68F) in the south of England, and the government told us all to stay home and not flock to beaches and parks for fear of spreading the virus further. However, it only got to the dizzy depth of about 12C here (54-ishF?) so, on the correct assumption that I would be pretty much alone I took a long walk this afternoon. When I passed a friend's house, I found him watering the daffodils and tulips in tubs in his front garden. So it was nice to have a chat even at at a distance of about 10 feet.

I've been asked to help edit a journal for the local Civic Trust, so I might get some mental stimulation soon!

[threecee.livejournal.com]

I still have an intermittent cough and a constant headache, but am feeling better otherwise and am now positive of my self-diagnosis of allergies. I'm accustomed to being home, so no real change in routine other than some concern about getting supplies. The weather has been nice enough to take walks around the neighborhood most days and I might pass one or two people on the opposite side of the street, but certainly no crowds here.

So far,our governor seems to be taking advice from the medical specialists and making sensible decisions. (Although I still disagree that gun stores are "life-sustaining" businesses even when people aren't panicking. We have had two shootings, one fatal, in the past week. Same rate as before the pandemic.)

[pfrye.livejournal.com]

Still here on the coast of Washington. The beach access is closed so we can't walk our greyhounds on the beach. They are getting tired of just going up and down the street. We live on a rural peninsula (on a map it's in the very south west corner of Washington at the mouth of the Columbia River. 28 miles long, about 2 miles wide at the widest). We have noticed a lot more animal activity and we were told that there was a cougar siting on the street over from us. We can hear coyotes and there are more black bears here than just about anywhere else in the state.