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wnylib

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166. I am in an apartment building
Sun Mar 22, 2020, 09:24 AM
Mar 2020

near the center of town. There is a postage stamp size of lawn behind the building that might pass for a yard. But, to go outside for a walk, even down the block on the sidewalk, also means touching elevator buttons and doors that are commonly used by everyone.

Same for washing and drying clothes in the commonly used laundry rooms.

I have gloves, hand sanitizer, Lysol spray, and Chlorox wipes, as well as a supply of bleach, isopropyl alcohol, and peroxide. But not knowing how long this will last, I use everything as sparingly as possible, without scrimping to the point of taking risks. Do not want to run out and have to go out in public to try buying what is probably no longer available.

My apartment is on the 5th floor where I have a good view of 2 main streets in town. Our governor, Cuomo, has ordered non-essential businesses in NY state closed. There are 12,000 confirmed cases in the state and who knows how many untested ones? This is Sunday. Churches are closed. So why do I see cars driving by on both streets? Not as many as usual, but more than expected for a Sunday in these circumstances. So who are those people and where are they going?

You're not alone. Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #1
That's it, isn't it? yuiyoshida Mar 2020 #78
How he's going to look, AND how he can make money and power from it. C Moon Mar 2020 #101
THIS! yuiyoshida Mar 2020 #118
You said exactly what I was going to say DonaldsRump Mar 2020 #126
When I awake every day, I have to go through a recalibration intrepidity Mar 2020 #2
Yes! Recalibration Lars39 Mar 2020 #34
Aye. -- nt Alacritous Crier Mar 2020 #80
I feel like I'm waking up into Raine Mar 2020 #150
Not me. My brother and his wife lives in northern Italy. marble falls Mar 2020 #3
Oh man! That sucks! BComplex Mar 2020 #13
Sure brings it home. marble falls Mar 2020 #18
I just within the last hour spoke to a friend in Italy stopwastingmymoney Mar 2020 #47
Thats about what Roger e-mailed me. marble falls Mar 2020 #99
Is there a risk from just going outside? Is this in a city or suburb? OhNo-Really Mar 2020 #169
I don't think we know for sure stopwastingmymoney Mar 2020 #170
It's so "real", it's surreal. kentuck Mar 2020 #4
lol god sends deadly epidemic to stampede people to .... nt msongs Mar 2020 #25
This message was self-deleted by its author democratisphere Mar 2020 #5
I feel the same way. StarryNite Mar 2020 #6
I worry about folks who don't have a backyard. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2020 #16
we're allowed to take walks. barbtries Mar 2020 #69
I am in an apartment building wnylib Mar 2020 #166
Maybe just keeping their car's battery healthy and charged ? Pluvious Mar 2020 #182
Could be any of those things I guess. wnylib Mar 2020 #200
soap and water is fine, dont need all that crap Kali Mar 2020 #198
When I do laundry in the commonly wnylib Mar 2020 #201
It's hard to grasp the GOP is actively working to worsen things. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2020 #7
The GOP bdamomma Mar 2020 #86
Covid19 is now the grim equalizer. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 2020 #91
That was a common expression wnylib Mar 2020 #168
Somewhat, but I already knew in November 2016 that things were gonna get bad and prepared for it ansible Mar 2020 #8
So how, exactly, did you prepare? Wednesdays Mar 2020 #175
Ibhave done the same. SlogginThroughIt Mar 2020 #205
You are not alone. redwitch Mar 2020 #9
OMG your so right! avlbeerfan Mar 2020 #10
I feel like we're all actors in a Stephen King movie. StarryNite Mar 2020 #90
I've been thinking the same thing sammythecat Mar 2020 #131
I wake up thinking I dreamed it and quickly realize I did not. hlthe2b Mar 2020 #11
I have cried a little every day for gldstwmn Mar 2020 #12
Hang in there.. dewsgirl Mar 2020 #32
Thanks. It's therapeutic now but wouldn't gldstwmn Mar 2020 #39
Today marks two weeks since saidsimplesimon Mar 2020 #14
Yes. And hoping that by some miracle, it will fizzle out. Blaukraut Mar 2020 #15
Whoever let the animals out of the Philadelphia Zoo made it pretty weird jberryhill Mar 2020 #17
Very much so... wcmagumba Mar 2020 #19
Hang in there DarthDem Mar 2020 #155
Thank you DD.... wcmagumba Mar 2020 #194
Saw this in January, I hope the country survives, just went out to a store, the clerks are sweet Demonaut Mar 2020 #20
You did good MustLoveBeagles Mar 2020 #206
I remember seeing the "bowl" of New Orleans on TV, Croney Mar 2020 #21
So Twilight Zone luvallpeeps Mar 2020 #22
I'm pretty scared and depressed. BComplex Mar 2020 #23
You took the words out of my mouth when you compared it to 9/11. Mike 03 Mar 2020 #24
You have described exactly how I feel. smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #173
Yes and no. PETRUS Mar 2020 #26
This. Mike 03 Mar 2020 #35
Thanks. PETRUS Mar 2020 #56
Same leighbythesea2 Mar 2020 #112
My life has seemed unreal from the moment Trump was declared winner of the election. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Mar 2020 #70
On election night of 2016, when you got that deep empty feeling in your gut.... kentuck Mar 2020 #27
That was me kpete Mar 2020 #62
I remember that, too. hamsterjill Mar 2020 #73
I told my younger sister after the election that, if we were lucky, we would only be hurt johnthewoodworker Mar 2020 #81
I remember watching the returns and the nausea hitting me around 9 p.m., followed by Totally Tunsie Mar 2020 #144
I talked my daughter's friend out of suicide election night woodsprite Mar 2020 #160
I had that feeling MustLoveBeagles Mar 2020 #208
No Texaswitchy Mar 2020 #28
It got real when WHO declares the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic Brother Buzz Mar 2020 #29
It is shock... Newest Reality Mar 2020 #30
"the more you expect and realize it, the less impact it has." Mike 03 Mar 2020 #37
We are all Vietnamese now. I was watching a documentary on giant American bombers BamaRefugee Mar 2020 #31
It's all so scary. dewsgirl Mar 2020 #72
It's all a little surreal. Aristus Mar 2020 #33
I often feel like I'm in an alternate universe spinbaby Mar 2020 #36
Nothing is real SCantiGOP Mar 2020 #49
College, Sept. 1966 I slept above a Mortuary AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2020 #147
Helping to milk cows sounds infinitely preferable... 3catwoman3 Mar 2020 #187
It was, nt AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2020 #204
No and no. HarlanPepper Mar 2020 #38
Don't think so. SammyWinstonJack Mar 2020 #59
Sorry. let me get back to form.... HarlanPepper Mar 2020 #84
Interesting. You just seek the message you want to hear defacto7 Mar 2020 #71
Nah I seek balance and facts HarlanPepper Mar 2020 #82
Omg I love you. a la izquierda Mar 2020 #92
Happy to help! HarlanPepper Mar 2020 #93
Not that bad but Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #96
Not really. TwilightZone Mar 2020 #135
Well said. DarthDem Mar 2020 #157
My sentiments exactly. llmart Mar 2020 #174
Kind of. I see the projections of infections and deaths and it's hard to appreciate the magnitude. Politicub Mar 2020 #40
My wife is a nurse on the COVID-19 floor at a mid-sized hospital in Northern California. enki23 Mar 2020 #41
I hear you. tosh Mar 2020 #130
God bless your wife and all other health care workers who are putting their lives on the line totodeinhere Mar 2020 #177
it is totally fucking surreal NRaleighLiberal Mar 2020 #42
Surreally real. dchill Mar 2020 #57
You are not alone Gothmog Mar 2020 #43
Yes. Part of my shock is that I'm seeing people live on the news, Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #44
That is the way I felt walking around NYC a week ago. KSNY Mar 2020 #48
I don't trust what Trump tells us, but this is real. Some of my contacts are hospitalized. KSNY Mar 2020 #45
You can bet the Republicans are not spending all their time managing the crisis. Kablooie Mar 2020 #51
And so far for most of us it seems real but it's still abstract. Kablooie Mar 2020 #46
I understand how you feel... Hugin Mar 2020 #50
One thing that's so frustrating is that I'm completely useless in all of this. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #52
Nobody ever said staying out of the way was an easy task... Hugin Mar 2020 #106
Thanks for the encouragement. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #108
I gave blood the other day after hearing a plea from the Red Cross lordsummerisle Mar 2020 #138
I understand that helpless feeling. wnylib Mar 2020 #179
Everything you said, VO. What's also surreal is that my work life is completely normal. flibbitygiblets Mar 2020 #53
I have, even as a nurse. I was thinking it'd be nice to go somewhere it isn't uppityperson Mar 2020 #54
Feels like Sci-fi reruns BlueJac Mar 2020 #55
i watched only one episode of "The Walking Dead" and now they populate my dreams! PWPippinesq Mar 2020 #58
Where I live, we've been evacuated stopwastingmymoney Mar 2020 #60
It is uncharted territory. I have had thoughts and plans that would not have entered my mind Evolve Dammit Mar 2020 #61
No, I've been having anxiety attacks since last Thursday. Initech Mar 2020 #63
Look for good news DarthDem Mar 2020 #158
I'm trying to figure out what the Con and ReTHUGs are cooking up malaise Mar 2020 #64
I am afraid that since the national debt Scarsdale Mar 2020 #123
If I get the pneumonia at the wrong time, I'm doomed A HERETIC I AM Mar 2020 #65
For your sinus infection AnotherDreamWeaver Mar 2020 #148
yes and no. barbtries Mar 2020 #66
I am stunned that we missed opportunities to contain the virus Chainfire Mar 2020 #67
China bought the rest of the world a lot of time with their containment measures. Pobeka Mar 2020 #76
lost interest in watching anything scifi AlexSFCA Mar 2020 #68
I went to my local supermarket this morning in the dark at 5:30 am. panader0 Mar 2020 #74
You'll hear the music with your friends again. DarthDem Mar 2020 #159
No you're not weird. It's real. It's here. Do what you can, don't worry bout what you can't do Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #75
It Is Certainly Nothing I Ever Thought Me And Mine Would Be In, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2020 #77
I live in a small rural town. It became real to me when I went to get groceries last weekend and lynintenn Mar 2020 #79
"This is some weird shit." murielm99 Mar 2020 #83
I say he's more like bdamomma Mar 2020 #103
We are camping, and found an old newspaper iamateacher Mar 2020 #85
My adult son with autism who lives in a group home has been quarantined all week kimbutgar Mar 2020 #87
Yes part of me wants to magically hear that marlakay Mar 2020 #88
Yes, even while it's getting realer and realer Lulu KC Mar 2020 #89
That's the feeling I couldn't articulate. Thanks nt trocar Mar 2020 #189
Namaste Lulu KC Mar 2020 #190
I'm a history nut, I've studied pandemics over the years & if there is one thing I have always yaesu Mar 2020 #94
You are not alone. Delmette2.0 Mar 2020 #95
Of course, but we have to ride, so ooky Mar 2020 #97
Nope, been expecting something like this for many years Warpy Mar 2020 #98
I feel the same way Leith Mar 2020 #100
Yeah, of course. tavernier Mar 2020 #102
It's an overarching distraction from the mess we were already in bucolic_frolic Mar 2020 #104
I think I use the word "surreal" about 20 times a day now. mommymarine2003 Mar 2020 #105
Yes. Especially since to date, I do not know anyone that has it treestar Mar 2020 #107
I know the feeling. warmfeet Mar 2020 #109
I keep thinking of the carts used during the Black Death. greatauntoftriplets Mar 2020 #110
I take it seriously Beringia Mar 2020 #111
I've been trying to find an analogue in my past for how I feel The Genealogist Mar 2020 #113
I feel that way Woodwizard Mar 2020 #114
I'm struggling with the fact it's real and Trump is in charge TexasBushwhacker Mar 2020 #115
Yes lillypaddle Mar 2020 #116
After waiting out the horror of the last 3 yrs, for it to conclude this way would make anyone weird. ancianita Mar 2020 #117
You are definitely not alone. wendyb-NC Mar 2020 #119
YES and to hear dickhead say today they were left with Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2020 #120
I still can't believe no March Madness TheFarseer Mar 2020 #121
I'm coming to terms with our extinction. RandySF Mar 2020 #122
It kind of completes the dystopian reality of Trump being president AdamGG Mar 2020 #124
Maybe we really are in the Matrix. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #125
There is a lot of reality we need to face Steelrolled Mar 2020 #127
Like learning a new language Bmoboy Mar 2020 #128
Welcome to DU, Bmoboy. area51 Mar 2020 #202
I think of Anne Frank in her annex. She wrote that she still thought people good. She emerged emmaverybo Mar 2020 #129
I'm rereading the Diary of Anne Frank Raine Mar 2020 #153
+++++++++++++++++++++ emmaverybo Mar 2020 #199
It does feel rather surreal. GoCubsGo Mar 2020 #132
I've been trying to get my head around, something like a 1930's Depression and its empedocles Mar 2020 #134
This message was self-deleted by its author GusBob Mar 2020 #133
You're not alone. n/t LuckyCharms Mar 2020 #136
It Is An Adjustment colsohlibgal Mar 2020 #137
Yes it is the same unreality ... jimlup Mar 2020 #139
Well, without DU, I'd think I was losing my mind. AirmensMom Mar 2020 #140
I have no problem believing it. GulfCoast66 Mar 2020 #141
It is bizarro world. This is a wonderful DU community thread. JudyM Mar 2020 #142
I honestly was one of those people that didn't give China Blue_true Mar 2020 #143
We have a long way to go still Marrah_Goodman Mar 2020 #145
I freaked for 2 days straight. 58Sunliner Mar 2020 #146
I'm still processing... In It to Win It Mar 2020 #149
I wake up (that is if I manage to even fall asleep) with Raine Mar 2020 #151
It sinks in and then i stop thinking about it for a while. I'm on meds for applegrove Mar 2020 #152
You're definitely not being "weird".. What's weird Cha Mar 2020 #154
I feel like I'm starring in a really bad dream. eom sprinkleeninow Mar 2020 #156
Pre traumatic stress disorder yodermon Mar 2020 #161
It's like a nightmare LittleGirl Mar 2020 #162
This is exactly how we feel Bettie Mar 2020 #163
Way worse than 9-11 Trueblue Texan Mar 2020 #164
I thought 9/11 would probably end up being the defining game changing, cataclysmic... ClusterFreak Mar 2020 #165
I was hoping we could get to 1/20/21 in tact ecstatic Mar 2020 #167
While I don't really pray anymore- Alliepoo Mar 2020 #171
Your son mwf Mar 2020 #186
Thank you for your kind reply and excellent advice!! Alliepoo Mar 2020 #195
Yes. Definitely a feeling of unreality. Especially when I consider this lasting at least months. highplainsdem Mar 2020 #172
absolutely! now and future concerns. nt centrarchus Mar 2020 #176
I've felt that way since Nov 8, 2016. This cannot be real. JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2020 #178
I'm in slow motion terror. Texin Mar 2020 #180
I'm worried about my wife and daughters Jarqui Mar 2020 #181
It feels like being in a disaster themed novel mvd Mar 2020 #183
The night Trump won the Electoral College was like... LudwigPastorius Mar 2020 #184
I am in southern Italy under lockdown right now mwf Mar 2020 #185
me , too. demigoddess Mar 2020 #188
It takes a crisis or a tragedy to wake society up... Under The Radar Mar 2020 #191
I have been mentally comparing this to 9/11 BumRushDaShow Mar 2020 #192
Live in the reddest congressional district in Texas sorrybushisfromtexas Mar 2020 #193
I have moments of unbearability. Dennis Donovan Mar 2020 #196
I vacillate between pure panic Karma13612 Mar 2020 #197
The reality is beginning to hit home mnhtnbb Mar 2020 #203
I think most people are feeling pretty stressed Bayard Mar 2020 #207
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