Hooked on Corona

The Actore: Because of corona bs, I got upset that I couldn't open a public door that needed to be pulled without actually touching the surface. 

So today I made this thing out of a piece of scrap wood so I can push or pull doors open without touching them. Also push elevator buttons, etc. I know I'm a little crazy, in that most of corona spreads in the air, but there is a little piece of mind that comes with this:

Almost like shaking hands

Special K: "Out of a total of 5 Stages, the City of San Jose is in Stage 4, High Response Level of its Pandemic Response Plan and has proclaimed a local emergency. This means that there is high risk to the local population."

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b1-66er: Does THAT mean everyone will start crashing into other people's butts with their heads?

K: It's protocol.

You and your tiny infinity

b1-66er: Closing monologue of "The Incredible Shrinking Man"

So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero.

Special K: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-06/apple-encourages-silicon-valley-staff-to-work-from-home-on-virus

b1-66er: (And the stock goes down 4 points. )

That's a good pic of the campus. I've never seen that view before. 

Random headline: "Coronavirus will probably affect you. How you can prepare."

K: OK. I devour social media and I sense a change in the wind today on the virus. The trend is for more people to back off panic and back

 off taking it super seriously. I think panic and overreaction is going to decline. It might rise again, but it's going to decline for the next few days at least.

b1: You should start a channel.

Social Media Prognosticator.

K: I'm too lazy.

In Watchmen, the world's smartest man figured out trends by watching a giant bank of TVs and figuring out the gestalt.

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b1: Whoa. Nice comic pic interplay in the conversation, K-bot!

K: I only have a few points, so I might as well make them over and over.

Call me "COVIDi-2019"

Special K: <enclosed screenshot>

b1-66er: Whoa. 

"We pay more attention to Coronavirus than we do to the name of our restaurant. "

K: HAHAHAHAHAHA

You must be vvTHISvv young to enter the ride

Special K: Microsoft said everybody should work at home if they can. If you're

 60+, you MUST work at home or go on leave.

b1-66er: Who told you?

K: I read it here--

https://news.microsoft.com/2020/03/04/kurt-delbenes-march-4-guidance-to-king-county-employees/

b1: Good catch. 

K: I'm doing my part by being home almost every day.

b1: I've always liked that about you ...

 You eat your share...

And you slack your share...

K: And more.

b1: ... and you're ALWAYS willing to pick up for others who don't. 

K: I haven't been in the office since yesterday a week.

And I won't be there until next week.

b1: I haven't been in the office since year yesterday 10 years. 

And I won't be there in the next decade. 

I think that's how you natives say it. 

K: That's great.

I was thinking of pursuing retirement soon but I'm not gonna.

Hypno therapy is next...

Special K: I've been on theatre boards for 5 years and I'm the only straight male that's ever been on any of them. 

b1-66er: It's your sexuality holding you back?

K: On the contrary, I'm blazing trails. 

b1: So powerful!

K: Right. 

b1: You are He-man, 

Hear you roar!

In numbers larger

than before!

K: I am Reddy!