Update from The House of Plague, Day 5

[elisi]

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Snapshots from elisi's household:

The middle one, complaining about the lunch options. She appreciates the evening meals (Darcy is a good cook, yo), but we tend to just go for basic sandwiches on a lunchtime, and (at uni) she's gotten used to feeding herself things like couscous and bagels. She had a mini-rant last night: "And now it's like: Here is a carbohydrate and a beet!" Readers, we laughed. Also, once we're out of quarantine, she's in charge of shopping for lunch time food.

The eldest, who likes her hair very short, laughing her head off as she is being hoovered after a semi-successful hair-cutting session, since (despite wearing the large over-all plastic apron that they used for painting when they were little) she is covered in hair.

Me, looking at a very high up shelf.
"That shelf looks VERY dusty. When did I last clean it?"
*searches memory*
*results = zero instances found*
Me:


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The ugly (Genuinely scary & upsetting. Maybe just forward it to the government.)

Coronavirus: Italy's hardest-hit city wants you to see how COVID-19 is affecting its hospitals


The good (From around the world <3)

Well, if anyone wondered what Wales is getting up to

Quarantine in Spain, Day 3

ok so youve heard of italians singing songs from their homes… i give you spaniards playing bingo from their balconies

See the human spirit. Hear it sing.

'Nature is taking back Venice': wildlife returns to tourist-free city

Nothing to do with corona, just a BEAUTIFUL library


The memes

Not technically a meme, but daaaaaamn: Lmfaaooooo Norway just called the US a dusty ass bitch and they ain’t wrong

Also not a meme, but: Stephen Collins on best practice – cartoon

I feel this one in my SOUL: I keep wanting to type CORVID every god damned time

Buzzfeed (I know, I know, but they are good at collections): Stockpiling, and not just toilet paper...


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Comments

[shadowkat]

Oh thank you for the links. The Venice One, the Spain Quarantine Day 3, and the Buzzfeed one about Americans and panic shopping - are wonderful.

I laughed my head off at the panic shopping. It does explain a lot. I've gone to the grocery store several times over the past three weeks - and the panic shopping is bizarre. All the cans are gone. At one point all the chicken was gone. All the sanitary napkins. All the toilet paper. And all the eggs and milk. Now the store is limiting customers to one jug of milk and one carton of eggs, along with limits on all paper items. LOL!

People don't know how to handle this. It's like an invisible hurricane.

[elisi]

Oh thank you for the links. The Venice One, the Spain Quarantine Day 3, and the Buzzfeed one about Americans and panic shopping - are wonderful.
You're welcome. <3 I think we all need something other than just Doom And Gloom. Laughter is the best medicine and all that. :)

I laughed my head off at the panic shopping. It does explain a lot. I've gone to the grocery store several times over the past three weeks - and the panic shopping is bizarre.
It's clearly a human thing. Even in Denmark people went panic shopping - after the politicians said 'Don't panic'... (And then the Queen went on TV and told ppl off. See next post!)

People don't know how to handle this. It's like an invisible hurricane.
Nice simile. As the saying goes 'The crowd is stupid'. (I don't know if it's a saying in English, but it's a saying where I come from.)