I know, another piece on the virus… Well it’s on my mind and since I produce all the posts on this blog that’s what you get LOL. I have had some positive outcomes from this virus crisis. For the record, I am not sick. I also live in an area that is under a state shutdown, meaning non-essential businesses have been closed.

I am drinking less coffee. While this was never my goal it’s certainly a bi product. At work I had access to as much coffee as I wanted, here at home not so much. I am looking at screens a lot less. At work I have dual screens and on one I sometimes stream pod casts and or listen to the news. I’m doing things around the house I normally wouldn’t. Lots of laundry, a door knob replaced, and old CD’s/DVD’s gone through and vetted. No I don’t have any VHS , and if you know what that is hello gen xer 🙂 Talked to my family more. They aren’t freaking out but many look to me for leadership as the “old man”. We are hanging in there pretty well. We have a family poker game at 7PM tonight. I am hanging out with my dog more. She is thrilled to have all of us home at one time, we are her pack after all.

So there are bright spots to be had here if you look for them. I’m trying to focus on the items I can control and not get too hung up on the crush of negativity all around. This will pass, when? I don’t know if I did I would tell you. I suspect by May 1 we will be back to a somewhat normal routine. This pandemic is unusual compared to the last one.

Yes the last one in 2009 the swine flu. There is way more caution now than before I’m not sure how I feel about it but yes in 2009 swine flu was designated as a pandemic. I’m not thrilled with governments closing down businesses, I do understand why they are doing it, and the strategy should work to “flatten the curve”.

That said, I hope in the end we haven’t harmed ourselves fiscally too much. Until the dust settles I’m looking for all the positives I can find.

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