WCSU has taken a “work from home as much as possible” stance in light of Covid-19. I’m still getting set up for remote work. I can check email, but that’s about it.
Today’s accomplishments:
1. I set up my home office.
2. I re-potted my ZZ plant. Now I have 3 ZZ plants.
3. I took cute picture of my dog
Covid-19 Stuff/Symptoms
Since coming back from the code4lib conference on 11 March, I’ve come down with what is probably a cold. It’s all up in my sinuses. I have some joint paint, but that might just be from awkwardly sleeping on the train. I also have an embarrassing number of bruises, also likely from the train. I’ve been sneezing. I have a very minor cough first thing in the morning. I also have a slight sore throat. No fever. My symptoms line up nicely with the “it’s a cold” column of the flu/cold/covid-19 chart that’s floating around.
I’ve been quarantining myself as much as possible–the dog still needs walking, and I made a dog food/human meds run on Friday. I wore a mask because I have a mask and I have a cold. Friday, I was the only one I saw in a mask.
I’ve also been keeping separate from my partner Chris. This is because he planned to go to NJ to visit a group of 3 friends over the weekend. This was a very important mental health thing for him. So, we considered the risks and decided to minimize risk to them by minimizing Chris’s exposure to whatever germs I have.
Now that Chris is back, we’re still limiting our exposure to each other because now he has NJ germs and I have Pittsburgh germs. We recognize that if either of us has Covid-19, the other will, too. The hope is that we can delay transmission as long as possible because it means there’s hopefully one halfway-healthy person to do what needs doing. It’s a mini “flatten the curve”.
The apartment complex wanted to do energy efficiency improvements in my apartment today. It was scheduled out weeks ago, before covid-19 became impossible to ignore. Fairfield County has 16 cases as of yesterday evening. I told the complex that I did not want a bunch of people in my apartment who had just been in someone else’s apartment and were about to go through a third. I don’t want to get anyone else sick, I don’t want to be sick myself, and, while my balcony door is drafty as all get out, energy improvements can wait.
I hope this finds everyone safe and well.
Update
As up this evening, Fairfield County has 29 cases.
