Finished another t-roll this morning. The third since the beginning of the quarantine. For some reason I take a picture every time, here’s the complete collection: April 12, April 27, May 14. This is history.
Even if I never had any problem (I didn’t even try to buy any toilet paper, and it was only missing from shops for the first couple of weeks), I don’t think I will take it for granted for a while. Who knew that it would have been the first sign of the end.
The rules are changing in the UK, “Stay Alert” is the new “Stay Home”. Day after day we are learning what this actually means, on Monday I heard a prominent politicians explain that: “People should assume they should go to work rather than presume they should not.” Unless they can work from home. And you can meet one person. Outside. Not closer than 2m.
On Tuesday another member of the government said “The number of people who died has come down”. Basically, it’s the zombie apocalypse.
I found this interesting site displaying the curves of daily new cases using an arbitrary unit for the vertical axis, which makes them easy to compare. Here’s the two countries I’m most interested to follow:
So I have booked a flight home. I visited the Ryanair site and they were offering seats to Trieste starting on the 2 of July. I’m booked on that flight. Still not sure if it will happen, but at least it’s a date on the calendar.
There will probably be voluntary quarantine on the other side, and then again coming back, but it’s not a problem, I’m planning to spend the summer in Italy.
Most likely I will have to wear a mask on the flight. I don’t have one and need to figure out where to find it. I wonder why Ryanair didn’t offer me a mask, instead of the Samsonite trolley which I have been refusing to buy from them for the last 18 years.
Since a lot of friends were recommending it, I have been watching Money Heist. It’s a good show. Since I cannot stand dubbing anymore, I’m watching it in Spanish with English subtitles. So it often happens that I have whole dreams in Spanish, which is odd given that I don’t really speak Spanish.
And here’s a new episode of our podcast:
That’s all folks. Stay safe, be nice, and keep in touch.
Good luck procuring a mask and getting home. Our small municipality provides 4 per person per week at €0.25 each – truly amazing the UK cannot make or procure masks at this point. The graphs above and the government messaging you mention are reason enough to stay safe. I would love to catch up and see how you both are – was thinking of you recently (we got a batch of lighting for our house from Manzano). Money Heist is amazing all the way through – S3E1 briefly looks like it jumped the shark, but stick with it. If you feel lazy, the dubbing into English is actually really good.