β And then there was a pandemic. We saw reports from San Antonio, and we're close enough / our city is connected enough to there that we're expecting it to hit sooner than people are acting like it will, and doing the mostly-isolation thing. We couldn't really do that while Jacel was here, but now that sie's left… well, we'll see how it goes. It's likely that we won't be able to hold it down completely (not fully prepared), and there's some optional things that seem lower-risk which might happen, like going for walks where and when there's unlikely to be people nearby, so that we can at least get some fresh air. (This apartment is distinctly suboptimal in the ventilation department—speaking of which, I should remember to open the back door for a while—there we go.) A lot of my friends up north (Washington, Michigan) seem to be doing the right sorts of things—epidemic response works best when decentralized, and good handling of exponential curves tends to look more paranoid than an intuition that doesn't already strongly encode that idea (that is, most people's) will lean by default. How're y'all planning on responding? Are you being affected badly? Do you need help? (I can't do much about that last, but maybe someone else can.) ____________________ Your friendly local Chalcedony comprises primarily {[α] Illum, [β] Teneb}, their compositions, and others who don't use this account but are important parts of our system nonetheless. #plural #otherkin ^..^  |
