Life with the Chinese Coronavirus

A couple of weeks ago, on the 12th to be exact, I was telling Sheila and Kira that we'll have a better idea in four weeks as to what things are going to be like.  It's thirteen days later and now you can't find canned goods or soups in the grocery store.  The volume of people in the store has subsided per my observations and those of my snitch network, and water has returned to the shelves.

I was upset last Monday when I was in Safeway for the first time in over a week.  Almost all of what I went in there for was gone.  There's food available, it's just that you're likely going to have to come up with a plan B if you had something specific in mind for supper.

As for my work situation, I am still working.  For the time being I am "essential" and I'm coming in to help out with the testing and certification of satellite radios.  Half of my co-workers are teleworking, and I will likely be sometime next week when my test is complete.  I don't have to be physically present to write the test report; I can do that at home (and I'd be glad to).

This may surprise you, but I have all off a sudden started hearing from technical recruiters.  Last week and the week before I wasn't getting so much as the form email from whatever staffing agency trying to get me to apply for a position that I'm not a match for.  I've now been getting emails and phone calls, and I've been invited to webconnect to some hiring managers who I think are in Las Vegas (yeah, like I want to live there again).  The jobs of course are in those blue states with high taxes, high cost of living, and high rates of the Chinese Coronavirus.  I remarked to the gentemean who called me this afternoon about calls like his are a surprise, and he said there is a lot of hiring going on.

So.....the engineering firms have reason to believe that this will be behind us soon.  I tend to believe the same thing, but one question I will have to ask myself is, do I dare change companies before a Presidential election?  Odds are Trump is going to win this, and that Biden will be formally nominated and gaffe his way into a landslide loss reminiscent of Mondale and McGovern.

Anyway.....we have almost wrapped up week number two since my conversation of the 12th.  I'm optimistic that we, as a nation, will get thru this, in spite of the fatass politicians and Organized Media.

If Shakespeare were alive today, the quote might well have been "the first thing we do is let's kill all the journalists".  (The word "journalist" is being used very loosely here.)