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Social distancing….

Well…as you can see, I’m not counting the days of the recommended social distancing anymore because it appears that it is going to last a couple of months and I don’t want to get depressed when I see how many days it’s been…I did text all of the kids yesterday and they are doing fine and are all working from home…my son in NYC is taking a couple of weeks off since it is a hotbed of the virus infection and he is trying hard to avoid it…and I am a little concerned about him but what can I do? Talked to a few friends over the past couple of days and, with them being normal people who go out and do things, it appears that this stay at home thing is much harder for them than it is for me…at least at this point…I really haven’t had any social life for a couple of years now so I’m used to being by myself…and part of that was the need to save cash until I officially retired and got some money coming in…oh, and that reminds me that I need to bitch about something…it appears that the stimulus that is wending it’s way through congress and is supposed to put money in people’s hand to spend to keep the economy going is mostly a bailout of business and individuals have had to file taxes last year to get anything…and that leaves out all of us who are living on Social Security since we don’t pay taxes on it…and we are the ones who can use the money the most and will spend it….so, the repub bullshit that this is going to help people is blown up…and they are giving billions to cruise ship companies that are not even American…but they are well connected in conservative circles….did you expect anything else? Oh, well…I won’t starve but I do worry about the older folks who could really use the cash and I fault Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for letting this happen…okay, that’s enough for now….more later…