Love Will Tear Us Apart
Mar. 24th, 2020 01:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tracker7Our governor, Andy Beshear, is conducting daily briefings on the progress of COVID-19 and responses to the pandemic. He's doing a terrific job of delivering information, using plain language and graphics, being consistently hopeful and reassuring, and just being a leader. In this age of fast-moving social media, Beshear's steady hand has led to a Facebook group dedicated to memes about him, universally positive, and last week, Salon published an article titled "Govern me, Daddy," and it's a surprisingly good piece of writing on this very strange phenomenon.
"Strange" really is the world for things now. Well, if not, it's my word and I like it and I'm going to use it a lot.
One of our local pizzerias, Spinelli's, is opening a non-profit bodega at their Baxter Avenue store. Paper goods and canned goods, mostly, but eggs and fresh fruit, all at their suppliers' prices. Pretty great thing to do, I think. We also have distilleries using their waste alcohol to make hand sanitizer, and one of my favorite distillers is giving away cases of their 180- or 190-proof pure grain booze to first responders, hospitals, and nursing homes. As their announcement read, this is not hand sanitizer by any means, but it will clean the hell out of hard surfaces.
Things are getting better. I went to Aldi yesterday morning, and they were about as busy as a Before Time weekday morning. Low stock of some things, and a hard limit on purchases - 4x of most items, 2x on some - but the meat case wasn't barren and people were behaving.
Non-essential business (like my FLGSs) had to close up by 8PM last night. Both are offering curbside pickup options, and I hope that will be enough to keep them alive.
"Strange" really is the world for things now. Well, if not, it's my word and I like it and I'm going to use it a lot.
One of our local pizzerias, Spinelli's, is opening a non-profit bodega at their Baxter Avenue store. Paper goods and canned goods, mostly, but eggs and fresh fruit, all at their suppliers' prices. Pretty great thing to do, I think. We also have distilleries using their waste alcohol to make hand sanitizer, and one of my favorite distillers is giving away cases of their 180- or 190-proof pure grain booze to first responders, hospitals, and nursing homes. As their announcement read, this is not hand sanitizer by any means, but it will clean the hell out of hard surfaces.
Things are getting better. I went to Aldi yesterday morning, and they were about as busy as a Before Time weekday morning. Low stock of some things, and a hard limit on purchases - 4x of most items, 2x on some - but the meat case wasn't barren and people were behaving.
Non-essential business (like my FLGSs) had to close up by 8PM last night. Both are offering curbside pickup options, and I hope that will be enough to keep them alive.