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[the_rck]

Scott's father is in deep denial about him and Scott's mother being in a high risk group. He's quite sure that God will keep them safe if they assist with a drive-thru communion service tomorrow. He was also quite certain that they'd still be driving off on a several week vacation at the end of the month. Scott's mother is more sensible about it but has been having trouble getting him to listen.

Scott's sister seems to have handled it for now, but Scott's on deck in case their father decides to keep going. Both Scott's parents are 78.

Scott finally managed to get some distilled water today. We're still looking for toilet paper. The price of several things we buy regularly has gone up. It's very noticeable on the things that normally aren't very expensive. That is, when something is normally $1.20 but is now $1.50, that's a bigger proportional price hike than if they tacked 30 cents on to something that cost $5.

Scott and Cordelia went out for driving practice this afternoon. They were out for an hour. I'm hoping that they can go out later tonight, too, because Cordelia needs night hours. I think the night driving will only get more difficult as sunset gets later.

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[alexseanchai]

"God, why didn't You save me from the coronavirus hurricane?"

"I sent advance warning, a school bus with room to evacuate you, and a helicopter! Why didn't you save yourself?"

[the_rck]

Pretty much.

[alexseanchai]

I mean that is unfair of me on a couple levels but like

precautions still important???

[the_rck]

Well, Scott quoted the same joke when he was talking to his sister today. She wanted to make sure that he was on deck and waiting to back her up.

[lunabee34]

We've got to get Emma back driving,too. She was driving every day, but now that we're not going anywhere, she's not.

[the_rck]

It's hard. I'm not sure how Cordelia will feel about it. I suspect that she's going to worry about it being somehow against the law due to the shelter-in-place orders. I think it should be about equivalent to going for a walk, though, just with zero chance of getting close enough to non-family members to catch/pass on any illness.

Also, she really wants to feel like she's going somewhere, so we have to come up with destinations. I think it was metropark parking lots the last couple of times.

[lunabee34]

*nods nods*

Josh has been taking Emma every day to drive the route she will drive in the fall (if everything goes back to normal) when she is driving herself to school and to the university.

[evalerie]

I keep seeing comments on Facebook that it used to be our parents' generation yelling at their teenagers to stay at home. Now it's the adult children trying to convince their parents to stay at home.

[the_rck]

My mother and stepfather are being sensible. I haven't talked to my father, so I don't know about him. I'm worried about my surviving aunts and uncles. One aunt is a doctor in Lansing. One aunt and one uncle are in very bad health; that uncle needs a double lung transplant.

I talked to Scott's mother today and tried to persuade her to try some online social interaction more on the order of a group videochat. She's desperately missing playing cards with friends but isn't interested in cards without chatting and laughing and face to face interaction. She's lonely.