Kate
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I find I can work out very well at home. We did already have a set of weights, and I found a really nice step last year in the trash room still in the box. I pay $39 per quarter for the Beach Body app, which has a huge variety of workouts.
We also have two rowing machines, including one that’s like a Pelaton (Hydrow) and it’s funny because I know some of the people on it. I don’t touch that though, it’s how my husband gets through the winter when there’s ice on the river. I get cardio from, like, jumping around workouts and from walking.
It’s pretty apocalyptic.
I know, I’m scared 🙁
They say it’s picking up again in nursing homes too. I worry about that a lot. Like what if a nurse got exposed while going about their daily business. My parents can take action to stay safe but my aunt and people like her are at everyone’s mercy to a certain extent.
I can’t imagine touching or hugging anyone. I would never. But I’m also not a hugger or a toucher. However, there is one couple we know with a little baby, and we’ll meet up at a restaurant that has tables spaced far apart out in the parking lot and eat together. I like eating outside so I do take that risk.
Tbh there is also ONE restaurant that doesn’t have outdoor seating, my husband is a 25-year regular there, we had our first date, we know and love the people there, and we have eaten inside. They do a lot of takeout now so there are only ever a couple of other tables in there. Objectively I know it’s risky, but subjectively it feels ok, idk.
Those two behaviors are my riskiest. Normally I just stay inside like a troll.
It continues to really intrigue me how folks will completely ignore the medical advice about what’s risky and what stops the spread of coronavirus *when it comes to things that they want to do*. Like, my boss will say she doesn’t feel safe going to the hair salon, but she regularly socializes with various different groups of people and goes on weekend trips out of state. Or my mom got mad at my brother for eating inside a restaurant and told him not to come visit that weekend, but she goes inside art galleries and talks to the owners for something to do (masked but still).
It does kind of get ridiculous, but yeah, objectively, being inside gyms and restaurants – because you’re maskless and in there for a while – is what contributes most to community spread, along with gatherings.
If anyone knows someone whose ballot hasn’t arrived yet, please encourage them to just go vote in person today if they can do so safely. If you mailed your ballot but it didn’t arrive yet, you can still vote in person and tell them to disregard your mailed ballot.
Yeah, I think people get the message about not waiting too close to the election to mail in ballots, but if you know anyone who might procrastinate or think as long as it’s postmarked by Election Day it’s fine, let them know it probably won’t be. Brett Kavanaugh’s fuckery is terrifying.
People need to drop off or mail ballots TODAY if they haven’t already. Anything arriving after Election Day will likely be tossed out. On Election night, there needs to be no doubt Trump lost, or SCOTUS is going to say that any ballots counted after that would be an attempt to “flip” the result and they’ll get thrown out.
I’m very concerned about what the Supreme Court could do to throw the election to Trump now that they have Amy Looney Batshit and a 6-3 majority, and the shit Brett Kavanaugh is saying.
Yeah it never feels good.
Yikes. They were saying on TV that not everyone spreads it the same. A relatively few people spread it a lot and others really don’t. And I think they said 60% of the time, people who live in the same household as an infectious person don’t catch it.
That’s absurd. My 85-y/o neighbor got zoom installed and learned to use it.
In my side business we’re working with a political nonprofit. My main contact is around 70 and did not know how to put text in a word doc and attach it to an email. My mom used to work with him and she said he had TWO exec assistants and drove them both crazy.
