How is your quarantine going? Are you playing more or less EQ?
I'm keeping odd hours, but that's more because of the baby. No home gym, so I'm trying to ride my bike every day, and struggling to not eat through all of our supplies.
Sorry for novel. And thread necromancy, been a bit busy. I'm not talking to others much so this might be therapeutic for me.
Week three of quarantine. I work still but from home. I work 80% of time remotely anyway. I work in the research department of a large hospital system that does phase 2 (people interaction with stimuli) clinical trials. I do not provide direct patient care, I am a math / data / finance person. We are super busy because we are escalating our research approach to study sars-cov-2 and patient response data is all over the place. Thankfully, no furloughs yet. A lot of redistribution of labor. Wife is a critical care nurse providing direct care to COVID19 patients. We have so many routines now to reduce the chance of carry ie declothing, sterilization, etc. I'm doing all I can to keep her sane.
Kind of lonely at times. We don't directly contact others for fear that we could asymptomatic vectors. We have Skype time with grand parents and aunts. We have groceries delivered and I order delivery for my parents. I tell people 'thank you' a lot through the door. We are social people down here so this is a different kind of life.
Overall, ups and downs. My wife and I are worried for our own health. We just want to be safe and here until our little girl can take care of herself. As far as population health, my health system currently has no critical children cases. We have an over-representation of young adults due to the false narrative of immunity. At least that is the early social suggestion as to why we have a higher young population of critical covid19 patients without underlying health conditions. They're finding out the hard way that this virus does affect them. But it helps me to know that the virus, for whatever reason, appears to hold stability in older or weaker pts than children. Sometimes bad flu seasons come and it kills a ton of kids, so I'm just so thankful that the probability of my little girl getting sick is so very low.
Things that I have done:
1)Increased our life insurance policies as much as I could without needing an office visit / get caught in underwriting.
2)Got smashed w/ wife and pierced my ears multiple times. Was a lot of fun.
3)Made a ritual of visiting the garden every morning with my 3 year old and I'm having her tell me what has changed day over day.
4)Spend a lot more time in my yard. I'm very thankful about a month ago we invested in a large play set with a double tree house. I highly recommend getting one to those with little kids.
5)Good time to get Skype or make use of Zoom.
6)We tell ourselves and repeat a lot (this is really for direct critical patient care and checking your protective equipment, but...): There is no emergency in a pandemic. Don't put yourself in a bad situation, but if you get in a bad situation do not rush through. There is no emergency in a pandemic.