COVID-19: Episode 1 -- Household notes and links so far

So I've been doing a lot of reading, about COVID-19 among other things. Here's a household status report, and the current collection of linkspam.

The household has been making some prepararations. At this point we can, I think, handle being isolated at least two weeks easily, just on what's in the fridge, and four weeks without too much trouble. We haven't gone into full prepper mode, and hopefully we won't have to. We can handle more than that as long as we can get dry goods from Amazon and the power doesn't go out.

Things will get difficult if one of us gets sick. Everyone here at the North End is "At Higher Risk" except maybe S; L and Colleen both have underlying health problems that put them at risk, and Colleen and I are both over 65 -- 12 years over in my case. It says something that the healthiest person in the house is a 73-year-old with a bad back. I do what I can.

It's looking unlikely that I'll be able to go to Consonance. That's in just two weeks, and involves two shuttle rides and a plane ride each way and a hotel at the other end of it. If it was just me I'd be tempted to miss it, but I really don't want to bring con crud home to Colleen.

Santa Clara County Public Health Department is recommending that persons at higher risk of severe illness should stay home and away from crowded social gatherings of people as much as possible such as parades, conferences, sporting events, and concerts where large numbers of people are within arm’s length of one another.

-- note that other sources define "large numbers" as 10 or more.

Here are the links -- they're all either from last week's Done Since post or will be in this week's, but I wanted to get them all in one place. I don't guarantee that they're in any order that makes sense.

TL;DR: if you read nothing else, take a look at @siderea's series of posts tagged coronavirus2020, the CDC's Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pages, and for comic relief, this Joy of Tech comic.

( Notes & links )

I resisted the temptation to call this series A Journal of the Plague Year, but it was hard. The fact that I don't like long tags helped. It would work as a blog subtitle, but I'm hoping that I won't need it.