gwydion | I'm So Far Behind Y'all

* I'm going to section off coronavirus stuff in the aggregation between the dotted lines, so people who need to skip can skip without losing the other stuff.

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* "Trump cancels G7 at Camp David and makes it a teleconference due to coronavirus:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/politics/g7-camp-david-teleconference/index.html

* "Trump to partially close U.S.-Mexico border:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/20/us-mexico-ready-to-partially-close-border-138946

* "Fauci predicts Americans will likely need to stay home for at least several more weeks:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fauci-predicts-americans-will-likely-need-stay-home-least-several-n1164701

* Things that make me go hmmmm...: He is specifically refusing to release money to Indian health services, kind of like he keeps refusing to release hurricane disaster money to Puerto Rico. "Emergency coronavirus funds for American Indian health stalled:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/20/coronavirus-american-indian-health-138724

* "Trump Told Governors to Buy Own Virus Supplies, Then Outbid Them:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/trump-told-governors-to-buy-own-virus-supplies-then-outbid-them?sref=MIBMEEoj

* "Senate at impasse on trillion-dollar coronavirus package:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/20/senate-coronavirus-emergency-stimulus-deal-friday-138788

* "Health care workers on their own against coronavirus as supplies dwindle:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/health-care-workers-on-their-own-against-coronavirus-as-supplies-dwindle-81049669530

* "‘Using a squirt gun to put out a fire’: The lack of protection for healthcare workers amid coronavirus pandemic:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/-using-a-squirt-gun-to-put-out-a-fire-the-lack-of-protection-for-healthcare-workers-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-81047109552

* "Trump irresponsible, dangerous with lies and happy talk on federal coronavirus help:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-irresponsible-dangerous-with-lies-and-happy-talk-on-federal-coronavirus-help-81046085925

* "Chris Hayes: U.S. faces three dire crises right now:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-u-s-faces-three-dire-crises-right-now-81045061742

* "Trump allows borrowers to suspend student loan payments for two months:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/student-loan-payments-suspend-coronavirus/index.html

* "US tax filing deadline moved to July 15, Mnuchin says:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/steven-mnuchin-tax-day-july-15/index.html

* "Education Dept. Makes Changes To Standardized Tests, Student Loans Over Coronavirus:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/03/20/818977484/education-dept-makes-changes-to-standardized-tests-student-loans-over-coronaviru

* "Gov. J.B. Pritzker issues order requiring residents to ‘stay at home’ starting Saturday:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-coronavirus-illinois-shelter-in-place-lockdown-order-20200320-teedakbfw5gvdgmnaxlel54hau-story.html

* "Newsom orders all 40M Californians to stay home in nation's strictest state lockdown:" https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/03/19/newsom-orders-all-40m-californians-to-stay-home-in-nations-strictest-state-lockdown-1268248

* "Cuomo orders all nonessential New York workers to stay home:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/politics/new-york-workforce-stay-home/index.html

* "Inslee announces relief for businesses, workers, renters and more in response to COVID-19 outbreak:" https://medium.com/wagovernor/inslee-announces-relief-for-businesses-workers-renters-and-more-in-response-to-covid-19-outbreak-c09c13a02690

* "‘It is best to consider that we have all had some contact’ with coronavirus, WWU says:" https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/coronavirus/article241285211.html

* "Minnesota Grocery Store Employees Will Receive Free Child Care:" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2020-03-19/minnesota-grocery-store-employees-considered-emergency-personnel

* "Oklahoma Schools And Jails Brace For The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Spread:" https://www.kgou.org/post/oklahoma-schools-and-jails-brace-covid-19-pandemic-s-spread

* "States wait for federal help at their own peril as coronavirus crisis builds:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/states-wait-for-federal-help-at-their-own-peril-as-coronavirus-crisis-builds-81047621993

* "Vital but vulnerable, cleaners hold the line against a virus:" https://apnews.com/6150d3cc8982a59364340413671a9b6d

* "100 Million Mask Challenge:" https://www.providence.org/lp/100m-masks

* "Coronavirus: Deaconess asks public to sew CDC-compliant face masks for staff:" https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2020/03/18/coronavirus-deaconess-ask-public-provide-medical-face-masks/2865273001/

* "Senator Dumped Up to $1.7 Million of Stock After Reassuring Public About Coronavirus Preparedness:" https://www.propublica.org/article/senator-dumped-up-to-1-7-million-of-stock-after-reassuring-public-about-coronavirus-preparedness

* "GOP senators sold stock after secret coronavirus briefing:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gop-senators-sold-stock-after-secret-coronavirus-briefing-81045573687

* "The Person Who's Supposed to Be in Charge Is Unraveling:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2020/3/20/person-supposed-be-charge-unraveling

* "Trump on coronavirus: "The only thing we weren't prepared for was the media":" https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-media-werent-prepared-bf6b8595-61c6-4e5a-b391-ca1e4446368e.html

* Has no one yet explained to 45 what Presidents do? "Trump viciously attacks NBC News reporter in extended rant after being asked for message to Americans worried about coronavirus:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/media/trump-rant-at-nbc-news-peter-alexander/index.html

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* "Goldman Sachs predicts 2.25 million Americans filed initial unemployment claims this week, the highest on record:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/economy/unemployment-benefits-goldman-sachs/

* "U.S. markets wrap up worst week since the 2008 financial crisis:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/20/stocks-markets-today-coronavirus/

* "U.S. judge freezes House lawsuit seeking President Trump’s IRS tax records:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/us-judge-freezes-house-lawsuit-seeking-president-trumps-irs-tax-records/2020/03/20/34eb3dd6-6ac0-11ea-b313-df458622c2cc_story.html

* "Tulsi Gabbard Drops Out of Presidential Race, Endorses Biden:" https://www.advocate.com/election/2020/3/19/tulsi-gabbard-drops-out-presidential-race-endorses-biden

* Today I moved a bookshelf approximately 8 inches to the right. It nearly killed me. I had to pull four shelves, clean them, put them back after. I nearly fell twice.

Earlier, I needed to do a quick ATM run. Our city is doing San Fransisco rules, basically. It was a little eerie driving down the min street on a Friday night and having it be so quiet. There were about the right number of cars for a Thursday, but not a Friday between 7 and 8. About half the restaurants and all the bars were closed. I could see a big carry out only sign on Skye and my favorite date night restaurant. The real difference was the only pedestrians were homeless people, trapped outside in plague city because we only have one shitty men's shelter that's run like a cult so only the most desperate men will use and nothing secular, nothing for women or families or teens. I saw literally one person in a mask waiting for a bus the whole drive home.

It is good and right that people are taking this seriously. It is fundamentally unnerving to see it in action. I washed my hands when I got home first thing, as i was touching the ATM.

* I know some people are understandably anxious about me.

1. I have a good supply of things like pasta and canned soup. I am currently well supplied with everything but bread products and a few perishables, and some super specific things I like, but don't literally need like Jaipur veg ready meals and that one type of oatmeal I really like. I still have a good supply of shelf stable milk and soy milk. There is a plan in place for healthy millenials to do my April shopping for me. I'm not going to starve. I promise.

2. I have a millennial on my living will paperwork as a medical contact. This friend also has my social media passwords and will tell you if anything happens to me that I can't inform you of myself via tumblr and dreamwidth. Odds are if I didn't post at the usual times I just wore myself out with post renovation organization and clean up, or was tired, or had my sleep disrupted again. Please, please don't be distressed if this happens. Again, odds are something will post in this space if anything happens to me suddenly.

3. I know there are starting to be shortages of certain lung medications. I am anal retentive about prescription refills and am extremely well supplied with lung meds in particular because they are essential to be basic functioning. The shortages are so far not in the method of delivery I use and I literally have another box of supplies already ordered and coming next week.

4. I currently have normal spring allergy symptoms, this being Spring, but my lung function is at the upper end of my lung function generally as I wrote this and I have no symptoms beyond my usual chronic stuff that isn't going to go away just because there is a pandemic on. I'll let y'all know if that changes.

I know people are really scared and rightly so, especially for people living in hot zones. Our federal government have failed us because republicans give no fucks if we live or die, but I live in a state and a city that really are trying hard to do what they can. If the pandemic gets me, it gets me. All I can do are take what rational measures I can.

Remember, my psychology is weird. I cope with bad shit happening by starting a staring contest with the abyss and see who blinks first. I'm that person who likes to know exactly what I'm up against. This how I got into aggregation blogging. I'd rather know than not know. I don't panic, and if I need to not look I don't look. This project may look like anxiety, but it's actually calm. This is me studying yet another world crisis the way I studied dangerous adults as a kid in order to survive them. It's what I do. It's also why the usual image and fandom posting is proceeding normally on my tumblr. I find setting that up relaxing.

Odds are your psychology and coping mechanisms are entirely different. Do what you need to take care of yourself, as long as your self care involves the usual pandemic safety precautions. If the news is stressing you out? Don't read the news. Go take a hot bath. Watch something silly. Garden. Read some fiction. Do a craft. Play some online games or do online chat. Eat. Sleep. Everything is easier to cope with if you've had food and sleep.

Do what you need to do mentally and physically. Take care of yourself and each other.

* "To All the Snowmen We’ve Made Together:" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/arts/design/winter-photography-snowmen.html

* More free performances: https://www.marquee.tv/

* I am at the point in my Babylon 5 rewatch where the entire crew of a Narn cruiser give their lives to save 700 civilian women and children. Damn this show rips my heart out after all these decades and frequent rewatching.

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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.

* "100 Million Mask Challenge:" https://www.providence.org/lp/100m-masks

* "Coronavirus: Deaconess asks public to sew CDC-compliant face masks for staff:" https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/2020/03/18/coronavirus-deaconess-ask-public-provide-medical-face-masks/2865273001/

* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey

* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/

* Here’s a list of vulnerable republican senators up for election this year:

Martha McSally - Arizona
Susan Collins - Maine
Cory Gardner - Colorado
Thom Tillis - North Carolina
Pat Roberts - Kansas
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler - Georgia
Joni Ernst - Iowa

Here’s a list of vulnerable democratic senators that NEED votes to keep their seats:

Doug Jones - Alabama
Gary Peters - Michigan

* Want to get rid of Mitch McConnell? Help Amy McGrath: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/am-website?refcode=website-nav

* Want to get rid of Lindsey Graham? Help Jaime Harrison: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_harrison_fr_q12019_jaime-a?refcode=MS_AD_D-DD_2019.03.08_X_GG_KW__X__eyJjcmVhdGl2ZSI6IkFkZCBEb25hdGlvbiBOb3ciLCJhdWRpZW5jZSI6IkphaW1lSGFycmlzb24ifQ&recurring=TRUE&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn4a_583I5gIVC8RkCh0MowFeEAAYASAAEgIXZfD_BwE

* There's a decent chance of flipping this Senate seat blue. Want to help? https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ads-mek-egsearch_dtd?refcode=ads-200108-gs-evergreensearch-dtd-natl-mix-8753679275-87807510469-410037583123-%2Bmark%20%2Bkelly%20%2Bdonate&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpKSR192K5wIVAsNkCh0EeAFSEAAYASAAEgLY7fD_BwE

* Want to support Christy Smith in the primary for Katie Hill's seat?: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/dw_ca25

* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:

Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.

This App phones your rep for you: http://takeastance.us/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resistbot.io/

* Some RL friends of mine who were barely scraping by just lost one of the part time jobs they collectively hold and it's really fucking things up for them. These are good people, who do so much for others. Want to help? https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-gig-worker-get-through-the-winter/share

* Help pay for cat food, litter, meds, medical copays: Paypal Lethran@gmail.com or paypal.me/Gwydion

* If you are interested in helping, right now the Cat thing we need most is:
https://www.chewy.com/wellness-core-signature-selects/dp/147047

The dry food I was going to try is this one: https://www.chewy.com/blue-buffalo-wilderness-flatland/dp/176663

* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html

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