A semi-autobiographical account stretching from January to mid-March
- Detached disinterest. Something's up in China
- Ah yet another East Asian flu. Deja SARS
- Lots of Corona beer jokes. Hahaha
- Oh China...what's with the lockdowns! Will iPhone production stop? Will Apple stock sink??
- Travel restrictions to and from China! Washington state going crazy! Ooh exciting times
- Meh. This too shall pass. Warm weather is coming anyway
- But let's work from home: better be safe than sorry. Yay Netflix
- Spousal truces over who gets the study desk, who gets to take work calls loudly vs who needs to whisper
- Wtf just happened in Italy?!
- Fevered reading up on articles and analysis and data and charts and graphs and projections and predictions
- Holy moly! Markets in free fall
- Panic selling! (Of stocks)
- Panic buying! (Of masks)
- No bank runs (yet) but lots of grocery runs... Sanitizers cleaned out, wipes wiped out. F*ck it we have soap anyway
- Dang school are also closed now! So much for Netflix. Full on zoo mode at home
- Huh some pretty fun WhatsApp and Twitter jokes. Full on tragi-comedy
- Wade through the tons of spammy corporate emails... "You last used our product 4 years ago but we feel compelled to email you about the steps we are taking for your protection. Though we sell shoelaces". #FML
- Binge on chocolate. It's the end of the world anyway
- Guilt trip. Who am I kidding. The chocolate overkill is on me and me alone
- Guilt trip #2: doctors and families dying in China and Iran and Italy and here I am wallowing in self pity and chocolate?
- No basketball. No F1. No tennis. Damn!
- No distractions: pure virus. Wake up to Corona news. Sleep to Corona news
- CAN WE STOP TALKING ABOUT CORONAVIRUS? This news overdose will kill me before the virus does
- I am DONE reading; let's do some long overdue prep work. Why oh why didn't I get toilet paper like the others. Now even Amazon is all out of stock. Stupid stupid stupid
- No new news for 2 hours
- 12 hours now
- ...
- I can't stand the waiting. Bring it on Corona! Let's see this out one way or the other
- Utter resignation. Ennui. Take me already
- Shit it has hit the neighborhood! So much for the bravado
- The end is nea...ah...ah...ahchoo!
