{"id":3632,"date":"2020-04-04T12:44:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2020-04-04T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T16:44:28","slug":"the-only-way-out-is-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alkemi.org\/blog\/?p=3632","title":{"rendered":"The Only Way Out Is Through"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a bizarre combination of boring and stressful. The CDC said yesterday that we should all be wearing masks in public to prevent asymptomatic infected from spreading the virus. Using terms like &#8220;asymptomatic infected&#8221; without irony and without writing about a zombie apocalypse seems&#8230;so so weird, just like everything else these days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a typical workday for me just now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>wake up and realize that yes, this is really happening<\/li><li>get up, do what one usually does when one first gets up in the morning<\/li><li>wash hands for the first time that day<\/li><li>get dressed, go downstairs, let dogs out<\/li><li>wash hands (because I&#8217;ve touched the dogs and the doorknob)<\/li><li>usual morning ablutions, put makeup on (not sure why I&#8217;m still doing this but it makes me feel more &#8220;normal&#8221;)<\/li><li>make dogs&#8217; breakfast, wash dog bowls<\/li><li>wash hands<\/li><li>make tea to take to work, grab whatever breakfast I will have, spray kitchen surfaces, tap, sink etc. with bleach<\/li><li>leave for work<\/li><li>arrive at work, put mask on, Lysol wipe anything and everything<\/li><li>wash hands<\/li><li>do usual but abbreviated workday but with no clients in the building, wearing a mask, staying 6&#8242; apart from co-workers and washing hands every five minutes it seems like<\/li><li>I&#8217;ve taken a big cut in hours to help us make ends meet<\/li><li>come home, take off shoes at the door, go upstairs, take off scrubs and put right into hamper in closet, wash hands, change into &#8220;in the house&#8221; clothes, wash hands<\/li><li>eat lunch<\/li><li>go back upstairs, change into &#8220;out of the house&#8221; clothes, walk dogs<\/li><li>come home, shoes off at door, straight upstairs, take off &#8220;out of the house&#8221; clothes (which are kept in a separate room so I don&#8217;t have to wash them every single day), wash hands, change BACK into &#8220;in the house&#8221; clothes<\/li><li>do whatever for the rest of the afternoon (clean, video games, cook, eat dinner, watch &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_Team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Time Team (opens in a new tab)\">Time Team<\/a>&#8221; or something equally absorbing but comforting)<\/li><li>go to bed, try to sleep, lather rinse repeat<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I wash my hands somewhere between 15-50 times a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the Time Team episodes we watched this week was them digging a part of London that had been bombed badly in the Blitz. They were bombed EVERY NIGHT for 57 night. FIFTY SEVEN NIGHTS IN A ROW. More civilians died in the Blitz than soldiers died in the war. That put this into perspective a bit. All we have to do is stay home and deal with whatever the fallout of this is. We&#8217;re not getting bombed EVERY NIGHT FOR FIFTY SEVEN NIGHTS. Holy shit. Keep calm and carry on indeed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People are nicer in general, although tempers and nerves are frayed. We wave and say hi out in the world from 6&#8242; away. I had to go to Tops this past week, I wore a mask, and it was still really scary and stressful. Every allergy cough from post nasal drip gives me anxiety. It&#8217;s just such a bizarre time. The environment will thank us though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a bizarre combination of boring and stressful. The CDC said yesterday that we should all be wearing masks in public to prevent asymptomatic infected from spreading the virus. Using terms like &#8220;asymptomatic infected&#8221; without irony and without writing about a zombie apocalypse seems&#8230;so so weird, just like everything else these days. 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