Hard times in the neighborhood

I’ve had a really good day so far. I went for a long run this morning and picked up some groceries and seafood from the farmer’s market. I cooked us a seafood feast this afternoon starting with some oysters, mussels in a garlic lemon broth, and topped it all off with a couple live dungeness crabs.

Having a great home cooked feast was a great distraction from everything going on, but the situation is getting increasingly harder to ignore. We had Tiger King to distract us this past week, but at some point our attention goes back to the news and the numbers.

You can only distract yourself so much until reality sets in. I had a friend from high school who was diagnosed. She’s going to make it out fine, but we’re at the point where we’re all going to know or personally be directed affected by the virus. We can only hope for the best case scenario for our close friends and loved ones, but the reality is that there will be some unexpected outcomes.

That’s the challenge with all this. No one knows what the outcome truly will be or who will be affected. This could last 1 more month at best and end with relatively minimal outcomes or this could carry over for months or even years. Like most things in life, the scary part is the unknown.

Let’s all hope for the best and do our part so the best will happen.