This is what I thought was coming but it will
not be exclusive to Bridge Clubs. All kinds of clubs will fall by the way
side. What will we do?
What will be the solution?
Read below....
Bridge Was Their Passion. Then People Started
to Die.
I read same article online
yesterday. Our bridge club acted quicker. We (and America) are in Post Traumatic Shock? I hope all
players in our club are doing okay. I read the weekly club newsletter. Very
well done.
A civic center, where I
played chess each Tuesday morning with other oldsters, closed early on. Two
popular restaurants I frequented for supper went to take out only. As did a
popular coffee house, where lots of people gathered inside and outside at
tables. Face-to-face social life exterminated until further notice.
I take lots of naps.
At night, I watch movies/serials on
Netflix and YouTube. Have fantasies of the burglars in the “Home Alone” movie
breaking into my apartment and we entertain each other.
Yesterday, I was in my apartment all
but about 10 minutes, when I took a short walk. Typical day, unless pilgrimage
to a grocery store for perishable foods (beef tips, yogurt, misso, coconut and almond milk, Chinese greens, which are fresher and more nutritious than green veggies in American groceries.) My larder is well-stocked with staple
foods (nuts, seeds, dried fruit, brown rice, garlic, ginger root, cooking oils, curry powder, etc.) that don’t need refrigeration. Have ample toilet paper, paper towels and paper napkins.
Sometimes I walk to nearby park with
a great non-fiction book I'm slowly reading, Stronghold, string my
hammock between two trees, doze and read until my legs fall sleep and I have to
leave or take up permanent residence.
Starting tomorrow, new city ordinance requires face masks in public, $500 fine for violation. I might ditch conventional and don homemade mask I made by butchering a perfectly good t-shirt.
My older daughter texted this mask should reach me by end of this week, which was made by a someone where she lives.
My new east-facing living room victory vegetable garden:
Before the world turned upside down,
I had another life online and iPhone, which expanded after shut-down.
Had to open new Bridge Base Online
account, because my old account was tangled with defunct email account. Filled out
convention card, yet to use. Pick up casual bridge games, some good players, some
players don’t know modern bidding basics, and mysterious robot partners and opponents.
Have not ventured playing online at
our bridge club. Think I did all required to qualify, but don’t know if I, or
my cranky laptop, up to playing 2 hours non-stop online. Complicating, the
cursor sometimes sticks and wrong bid happens. Disaster. Same happens playing
speed chess online, but that only blunders me.
Playing more chess than I ever
dreamed possible at chess.com, against human opponents about my same wannabe
great level - perhaps 2 on scale of 10. Watch world-class players at speed
chess. Another chess universe entirely. Watch famous chess games from the past on
You Tube.
Reading lots of coronavirus-related
stuff online.
An old internet buddy, retired scientist, who voted for Obama
twice, became disenchanted and voted for Trump, dropped a bomb 2 days ago, Contrôle de sécurité nécessaire,
which he said was banned from YouTube but still can be found on Facebook. The first fifteen minutes scientifically suggests why it was banned.
I replied to my internet buddy:
Watched about 15 minutes of the video. I think what this
doctor raises was always the question. President Trump asked Dr. Fauci if the
virus could be allowed to wash over America? Dr. Fauci replied that a lot
of people would die. The first serious spirit guidance I received was, embrace or
fight the tiger? The metaphor meant something to me who once did one or two
rounds of Tai Chi daily and had some, not a lot, understanding of Taoist
philosophy. The virus came from China, where Taoism arose ages past.
The doctor's point about quarantining healthy people is
unprecedented, instead quarantine people infected with the virus and people at risk
(old, sick, etc.), makes sense. That's why I holed up. That's why the bridge
clubs I belong to closed. Their members are in their 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and
even 90s. I saw an article today of a bridge club in Colorado that did not
close early and there were infections and several members died and quite a few
others still fighting for their lives.
President Trump was dealt a wicked bridge hand by China.
China dealt the same hand to itself and to the rest of the world. So far, the
planet and companies that profit from the virus are the winners.
Back to the doctor in the video. This virus is peculiar. Who knows at this
point what its course will be? I think I can predict more or less what will
happen if the economy is not reopened. Given how things were held together by
bailing wire, so to speak, the economy may be too damaged to do anything but crash.
That might bring on lots of deaths, too. Civil unrest. Martial law. I hope I
ain't still here for grocery stores run out of food and/or Big Brother horror
movie.
I wonder if President Trump will give illegal aliens working at critical infrastructure American farms and food processing plants permanent visas?
Same internet buddy introduced me to
conservative blog, The Patriot Post — America's News Digest, which publishes several op-eds daily. I go there to see what Republican
activists are thinking. Sometimes I comment, twist their tails a bit, agree
sometimes, learn something new sometimes. Facebook's a good place to track Republicans, MAGAs, Democrats, Anarchists, Chaos Theory, etc. Sometimes twist their tails, sometimes agree, sometimes learn something new.
I publish most days at my blog,
afoolsworkneverends.blogspot.com. and republish at Facebook. Sometimes get a comment or two.
My dreams continue to instruct and
correct me about me and what I’m involved in, regardless of my druthers. I see no reports online about that happening to other people. However, sometimes I see indication that something online was inspired by Something.
I emailed another internet friend last night:
I'm doing what's put in front of me, as I was trained by angels and am shown, corrected, re-directed, etc. That's the whole program. I have no
clue where it's going. At least I'm living inside and
have enough to eat and no bugs or police bugging me, so far.
sloanbashinsky@yahoo.com
