{"id":9467,"date":"2020-03-16T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T04:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/?p=9467"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:44:33","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T03:44:33","slug":"okay-coronavirus-is-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2020\/03\/16\/okay-coronavirus-is-a-big-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Okay Coronavirus is a big deal&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I said it was gonna be because China quarantining a huge area was a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>But folks&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Come on, how can you say you&rsquo;re observing social distancing when you&rsquo;re packed into CostCo, and virtually every other store thicker than sardines?<\/p>\n<p>Look. Do your normal shopping. Get in, get out, and leave something behind on the shelves for the next folks.<\/p>\n<p>I must say the folks in Northern FL are a lot calmer than the LA folks I left behind. Perhaps it&rsquo;s a function of population density perhaps, it&rsquo;s a function of pragmatism.<\/p>\n<p>Thank God the bars are still open here.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At this point it looks like I can still get home. But if I can&rsquo;t well I&rsquo;ll stay right here and if necessary try to locate some kind of job locally and adapt to the new reality.<\/p>\n<p>Worst case scenario. I&rsquo;l shave my head into a mohawk, outfit a car with steel plating and go &ldquo;Mad Max&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s going to come to that. On the one hand it might be interesting. On the other hand I&rsquo;m feeling more like Pooh, &ldquo;Oh Bother!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&rsquo;s get smart, let&#8217;s be kind, let&#8217;s understand that this thing is going to do what it&rsquo;s going to do. It&rsquo;s not right, wrong, good, or evil, it simply is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Panicking isn&rsquo;t helping.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Take a breath. Turn off the news for a few hours, read a book. and calm down.<\/p>\n<p>Trust me you can&rsquo;t stay healthy in a blind panic 24\/7.<\/p>\n<p>Stream &ldquo;The Martian&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Start by solving one problem at a time. Solve the most immediate problem first. Keep solving problems as they arise and we&rsquo;ll all come through this. We may be forever changed, we&rsquo;ll probably learn a lot, and the next time we&rsquo;re presented with an emergency we&rsquo;ll do better.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This isn&rsquo;t the time to play blame X, Y, or Z. Quoting Hillary Clinton, &ldquo;At this point what does it matter anyway?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Play the cards we&rsquo;ve been dealt.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m not sure I could carry off the &#8220;Mad Max&rdquo; look, and if I go &ldquo;Mad Max&rdquo; you&rsquo;re not going to like me very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I said it was gonna be because China quarantining a huge area was a big deal. But folks&#8230;&nbsp; Come on, how can you say you&rsquo;re observing social distancing when you&rsquo;re packed into CostCo, and virtually every other store thicker than sardines? Look. Do your normal shopping. Get in, get out, and leave something behind on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/2020\/03\/16\/okay-coronavirus-is-a-big-deal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Okay Coronavirus is a big deal&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9468,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9467\/revisions\/9468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}