Indefinitely

Today the governor expanded the stay-at-home order to more counties in our state. This now includes the state capitol, where a lot of my friends live. Since I've already been under these orders for a while, they've been asking me how this differs from the previous orders. It really doesn't, except there are kind of more defined rules about the types of activities you should be leaving the house for: basically, anything in support of keeping yourself or others alive - or you can go for a walk outside, like I just did, if you maintain proper social distancing.

They've also closed schools in my state "indefinitely." I wish they would just stop stringing everyone along and plan that students won't be going back this year.

I got an e-mail today from my gynecologist's office saying that they are now offering telemedicine and video calls for most standard exams. Not sure how that is going to work, but as I've not had any health concerns, I assume it will be ok to skip or postpone my annual visit this year. Even my dentist's office just sent a message about the indefinite closure - I just had a check-up last month, so should be fine even if I miss the rest of this year...

My social calendar is pretty busy this evening: we decided on a path forward with my business program students to close out their program, so we have a call with them; then a tour guide friend is giving his first "virtual" tour online; and then we're celebrating another friend's birthday with a party over Zoom! 🎈