Schadenfreude is coming!

It's funny, it really is.

All the people complaining about the government's and liberals' nefarious motives in imposing the lockdown. Insisting the disease should be treated in ways that don't require so much loss of freedom. Scoffing at news stories showing how bad it's gotten in Italy and could potentially be getting here soon.

What kind of world do they think we're living in? Do they think that not believing in something will make it any less real?

It's kind of like climate change and climate change doubters at a greatly accelerated rate. Some people think we need to do more to stop or reverse the environmental harm we're causing. Others don't think we're actually causing much environmental harm at all and it's just natural processes. But, either way, it's going to be decades before we have the chance to see who was right.

Well, here we are, under an epidemic. And these bozos think the government is crushing our precious liberties, whereas any doctor with any sense is all but panic-stricken that we're not doing nearly enough. 

Well, guess what? We're going to find out who is right in a matter of weeks. Possibly days. At the rate the infections are spreading, and given the lack of mandatory controls imposed in most places, we're probably going to reach a tipping point where our healthcare system is totally overwhelmed sooner than later.

I wish I could take more satisfaction in knowing how thoroughly these guys are going to be proved wrong. But I'd really rather people not die. (Yeah, good luck with that.)

My tweets

• Fri, 17:32: "What do you mean, YOUR chair?" @ Irvington Historic District https://t.co/YclbDlvccg
• Fri, 17:35: Sequestration companion duty is just EXHAUSTING. @ Irvington Historic District https://t.co/dsNPC665WJ
• Fri, 20:20: Stuck at home? Entertain or educate yourself for free https://t.co/DNNvNB0I0f https://t.co/JAOyUwyRaY
• Fri, 21:12: Another Friday https://t.co/5AkhDiwpDW
• Sat, 04:03: Schadenfreude is coming! https://t.co/aWe3jAoEHA

Weekend, day one

Suppose I could let the entry I posted in the wee small morning hours be my entry for today, but that feels like cheating. I should make sure to do at least one entry between every two sleeps, so this will be that one.

Stayed home, played City of Heroes a bunch today. Focusing on running through some solo mission arcs just to experience the nifty storytelling on the City of Villains side of things, which doesn't seem to be explored as much as the hero side. There's an arc where you're doing missions for the anthropomorphic personification of television, replete with many amusing satires on well-known TV shows. It was really rather hilarious.

Ordered out barbecue via Grubhub for lunch. I really shouldn't do that much, but I just got paid, it's the weekend, and I'd earned $10 off an order. So it worked out. Nifty food, at least. And I guess the Grubhub and other food delivery people are doing well. I hope that all the delivery and take-out business is making up for the business that the restaurants can't have right now since they have to close their dining rooms.

Video called my Mom and spoke briefly this evening. They've got better Internet service down there now, so the video quality was really very good. I was then inspired to write an article for TeleRead about video calling and virtual watch parties as ways to keep up social interaction with friends even while quarantined for Corona. I generally don't do that much stuff that isn't directly related to ebooks, but it seemed like a good bit of advice to offer people who're probably using the same technology to read ebooks as they would to make video calls anyway.

Numbly watching the Corona matters proceed apace, wondering whether the hospitals will be overwhelmed, and whether this will make all those skeptics who think we're cracking down too hard as it is change their tunes. Either way, the answer will come a lot more quickly than the one will about global warming.

One more weekend day to go before work beckons again. Monday's going to be awfully busy, especially with half the downtown office building still closed.