My parents are supposed to go on a cruise. In Europe. In April. Like, in 6 (ish) weeks? I think it starts in Barcelona (or, they fly into Barcelona? I don’t know where the cruise actually departs from) but might go through Italy (TBH I don’t pay that much attention when my mother is describing these things to me, MY BAD). My parents are not particularly feeble, but they are over 70. I wonder if it will get cancelled (it is a package tour). If it doesn’t get cancelled I wonder if they will go. I wonder if they have travel insurance.
(I am not particularly worried about coronavirus either. For myself, anyway.)
I go back and forth on being worried about it. In general I feel pretty invincible. But then I have days like today where I injure myself on light weight, cut my hand on a sharp dumbbell handle, and burn myself on soup and think “Ow my fragility”
If I could just get a small loan of 8 billion dollars from my dad I could build a Stark-esque empire all by myself with no help at all and make these things for us.
I am concerned about manufacturing disruptions affecting my workplace but we have plans for it and it’s still a ways off (but will happen at current level). We’ve been affected by other disruptions in the past few years so this isn’t an uncommon thing to prepare for.
I would stop taking public transport once the virus is in my city.
Kind of annoyed that now that everyone is afraid of coronavirus, companies and organizations are preemptively arranging for remote work options and schools are revisiting attendance restrictions…thus proving that none of it is that hard to do, people just won’t do it unless it might affect them.
Also, lol that just the threat of maybe possibly being physically compromised is enough to evoke change when the voices of people who are already physically or otherwise compromised are literally ignored. It’s kind of hilarious.
