It was a beautiful sunny day today and I had a chance to get out because the cleaners came. I can’t believe it’s been two weeks since the last time they were here. I realized that having R living with me is making me more careful. He is diligent about not touching things and reminding me to not touch my face. I think that if I lived alone I would end up being more laissez faire about all this.
This beautiful spring day is making me wonder if this weekend will create a surge of new cases. The city is shutting down most parks because of the nice weather to try to keep people from congregating. It’s easy to think it’s not real when the cases in the local area are decreasing and I’m not surprised that areas that have little contagion are thinking we are over reacting. If I didn’t know several people who have had it, I would be skeptical myself. Luckily they all recovered but knowing what they went through makes me glad we are staying home.
I had a conversation with a colleague this morning that made me think about the unintended consequences that will come from the economic impacts of shut downs. How many deaths will we have because of that? Will the lives saved by shutting down so many businesses outweigh the lives lost to causes related to loss of income? Last I read at least 30,000 restaurants in the US are closing for good and they estimate 110,000 will close by this summer.