The Johnson Space Center has moved to Stage 3, which allows for a few hundred people to begin working onsite, the History Office not being one of those essential offices. So for at least the next four weeks my wife and I will continue to share an office, which we have been doing for about 8 weeks or so now.
Julius went out for the first time since school ended for Spring Break (March 15th, I think). He went with me to Lowes, masked up of course. He did not like it. Kept scratching his nose through his mask, so that experiment will not be repeated anytime soon.
I am still the hunter/gatherer for the family. Retaining a fully stocked bunker (deep freezer and shelves in the garage as back up supplies). Much easier to get just about everything these days except for hand sanitizer and hand wipes, which I can make both of much more cost effective that buying them.
With the transportation system is disarray and the federal government unwilling or unable to do anything to help out, millions of pigs and cows are having to be euthanized. Which means the price of meat is going up, the price of food is going up dramatically. The federal government will not step in and provide assistance like they did under FDR during the Great Depression. Trump is acting more like Hoover, if Hoover had social media. To be fair, Hoover did launch the RFC which was more than Trump has been capable of doing. So much hunger in the country. Unemployment racing towards 20% and as of today, May 21st, the death total from the virus well above 90,000. This is unbelievable.
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The world is changing before are eyes and quite honestly is kind of scary. Life has gotten harder for everybody. I'm trying to fight my depression trying to convince myself there's some good in the situation. Out weight the bad and think of positive things that have happen to me so far. It sucks for the fact that life isn't how it once was. I wonder if it would ever go back to normal. The youth are really missing out on life, at least once it was. I just hope people are happy with there love ones in this pandemic and are doing well. Life is to short to be stressing and dwelling over what was instead of focusing on what could be.
ReplyDeleteDepression is real. If you have faced the hard realities associated with it, now having to face it in this new world among this pandemic it is harder. I have family that face that issue everyday and struggle with the compounding fear of this virus and the devastating effects it is having on the economy. I noticed too the other day that my grocery bills have gotten higher and there has been very little change to what we eat or our overall diet regarding consumption. I too wonder if it will ever go back to normal, whatever that is. Maybe this is our new normal. With only a few weeks away form a major election only time will tell if things get better. I hope they do; even though my family and I are doing fine there are those who are suffering.
ReplyDeleteI most definitely agree with you Hollie. For those who deal with depression and even anxiety is a hard time right now. I am also talking from having family that also suffers from this, my specifically. She feels the need to stay busy during her day to keep her depression and anxiety away. Not only that but just like you said prices on groceries and everything else are increasing as our jobs decrease. This affects many of us specially people with kids and students who live out of home. Let's just hope we work as a community and follow rules to get back to our regular routines. I think it can be accomplished faster than we think everyone just cooperates.
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DeleteI totally agree. The problem today cannot be dealt with without the governments help and the consequences are devastating. My family has gone through a death and after that we have been more careful with the rest of our family members. The price to risk your family members just to go out shopping or going out to the park. I am happy that your family is coping with it and i hope this situation will end soon.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you professor, since the corona virus started people got crazy over toilet paper, hand sanitizer, food and other things that people may need. Nobody really knows nor knew how much this pandemic is going to last. When the Virus started, we thought that it was only going to last about a month. The news would say it wasn't long. Now we are just getting used to living with the virus by being more careful. Since we have school online Is has been a lot of noise. I have five siblings and all of us do online school. Every morning it’s a disaster because there is a lot of noise and I can barely concentrate. I hope we can go back to campus to have a regular life again.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your post about “The Interesting Times Become Frightful Times” and how the Pandemic caused a lot of tragic messes not only without health but the way we interact with the outside world. With everyone keeping locked out from the outdoors this makes it worse for younger teens and children who might have mental health issue rise more such as depression, anxiety, or personal matters being stuck inside a home could make it worse for the younger folks. That needs to interact and being out size to socialize with other groups of people and do activities as well. In addition, the economic crisis as well took a huge hit in affecting our everyday purchases such as grocery, gas, and other essentials that we use daily. Prices sky rocketing, unemployment rising, importing, and exporting goods are being delayed, businesses forcing to close. In the OER textbooks and Ancillaries, under the General US history “American History from Pre-Columbian to the New Millennium” a person named Dorothea Lange who was employed by the Farm Security Administration this talks about a time when the stock market crash in 1929, a country that once had the largest economy in the world collapsed. She explained a promised made by former President Hoover that poverty would be eliminated and no longer be a thing but that was the opposite that had happened, all the wealth was gone the United States had collapsed. Which that really what happened in 2020 when the pandemic was rising, we saw everything changed in a matter on months almost like a domino affect where we saw everything come to a stop, people gouging on supplies, unemployment rising higher, in addition our interacting stop as well. Both the great depression and the 2020 pandemic had very similarity situation only difference was one was caused by health and the other was caused by financial issues but still the same outcome of how our everyday lives was affected with caused probably more damage than losing the economy and personal finances. Overall, I would give myself a grade of 85 due to learning how both crises were similar but were caused by different circumstances, both brought a lot of pain within the country. In the I also learned how the great depression Workers could no longer continue to fuel further expansion, so a slowdown was inevitable, which we could say the same way about what happened in 2020 with the corona virus. IN the passage also said that the Agricultural prices had already been low during the 1920s, leaving workers such as farmer, unable to fix any sort of recovery. When the Depression spread across the Atlantic, Europeans bought fewer American products, worsening. This related on the imports coming from countries like China, where productions were slow since that where most of the severe virus cases were hit the most. Meaning that we were not getting much of auto, clothes, or devices that we normally get causing price to inflate.
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