For the sake of posterity, I'm still here.
My COVID-19 experience has been largely a nothing burger. The biggest change has been an even longer period between work assignments and travel. I'd previously gone several weeks at a time with nothing to do, but we are on week 7 now since I last had to travel anywhere, which is probably a new high, but not necessarily. I was also docked 8 hours pay every week starting this coming paycheck until June 15th, but we've already received our stimulus check, which just about covers that.
Of course, we've also been wearing masks, washing our hands a lot, and not eating out at sit-down restaurants (which I never liked) but that's about it. The worst thing for me is the lack of sports programming on TV, although I'm not angry about it. I don't think anything could have been done to save the start of baseball season or English county cricket. If we lose the start of the NFL and/or the Cricket T20 World Cup in Australia, then I think you can safely say that better government intervention could have prevented it. Even the delay or cancellation of the NFL season would save me the indignity of seeing Tom Brady in a Buccaneers uniform, so I can't be that upset.
I'm catching up on tons of other TV I missed or possibly might have delayed watching had I been more busy. My current rotation consists of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" and "My Brilliant Friend" on HBO, "Better Things" and "What We Do In The Shadows" on FX, and "Better Call Saul" and "Killing Eve" on AMC. We dumped DirecTV so that we wouldn't be burdened with the rental equipment costs or the $600 in NFL Sunday Ticket fees that I either won't use at all because there won't be a season or wouldn't want to use because I don't really care about the Patriots any more (I've decided to save some money and become a Texans fan, although I'll keep an eye on the Pats from time to time). We got YouTubeTV, HBO NOW, and AMC Premiere, as well as our existing Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu subscriptions, which covers everything we want to see. We can watch it all on three $50 Rokus (bedroom, upstairs, and travel) and never have to pay rental equipment fees.
They are making noises about opening "the economy" up, whatever the hell that means. I'm not going maskless or touching any damn thing without immediately washing my hands for many months. I'm hoping I don't have to see the inside of an airport for that long, although that isn't up to me. I'm not going to any sit-down restaurants, ballparks, or any parks or beaches for a minimum of months, either. I have zero faith in any of our federal or state leaders to make scientifically sound decisions, and I don't give a fuck if any of my redneck neighbors look askance at me. You go ahead and chance it. I'm not playing COVID-19 Roulette, thanks. My likely next voluntary foray into any sort of crowd will be on November 3rd to vote against this monster, but that's only if I won't be able to mail my ballot in.
More to come later? We'll see.
My COVID-19 experience has been largely a nothing burger. The biggest change has been an even longer period between work assignments and travel. I'd previously gone several weeks at a time with nothing to do, but we are on week 7 now since I last had to travel anywhere, which is probably a new high, but not necessarily. I was also docked 8 hours pay every week starting this coming paycheck until June 15th, but we've already received our stimulus check, which just about covers that.
Of course, we've also been wearing masks, washing our hands a lot, and not eating out at sit-down restaurants (which I never liked) but that's about it. The worst thing for me is the lack of sports programming on TV, although I'm not angry about it. I don't think anything could have been done to save the start of baseball season or English county cricket. If we lose the start of the NFL and/or the Cricket T20 World Cup in Australia, then I think you can safely say that better government intervention could have prevented it. Even the delay or cancellation of the NFL season would save me the indignity of seeing Tom Brady in a Buccaneers uniform, so I can't be that upset.
I'm catching up on tons of other TV I missed or possibly might have delayed watching had I been more busy. My current rotation consists of "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" and "My Brilliant Friend" on HBO, "Better Things" and "What We Do In The Shadows" on FX, and "Better Call Saul" and "Killing Eve" on AMC. We dumped DirecTV so that we wouldn't be burdened with the rental equipment costs or the $600 in NFL Sunday Ticket fees that I either won't use at all because there won't be a season or wouldn't want to use because I don't really care about the Patriots any more (I've decided to save some money and become a Texans fan, although I'll keep an eye on the Pats from time to time). We got YouTubeTV, HBO NOW, and AMC Premiere, as well as our existing Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu subscriptions, which covers everything we want to see. We can watch it all on three $50 Rokus (bedroom, upstairs, and travel) and never have to pay rental equipment fees.
They are making noises about opening "the economy" up, whatever the hell that means. I'm not going maskless or touching any damn thing without immediately washing my hands for many months. I'm hoping I don't have to see the inside of an airport for that long, although that isn't up to me. I'm not going to any sit-down restaurants, ballparks, or any parks or beaches for a minimum of months, either. I have zero faith in any of our federal or state leaders to make scientifically sound decisions, and I don't give a fuck if any of my redneck neighbors look askance at me. You go ahead and chance it. I'm not playing COVID-19 Roulette, thanks. My likely next voluntary foray into any sort of crowd will be on November 3rd to vote against this monster, but that's only if I won't be able to mail my ballot in.
More to come later? We'll see.