But, by the day's end, it wouldn't even matter I was annoyed with Disney. Because, I'm probably not going to Disney again anytime soon. Thursday, Florida saw what? 5,000 cases? I don't even remember. The number was shocking. And alarming. Then, yesterday's numbers hit. Just short of 9,000. That's bananas. Like, BA.NAN.AS. Granted, we did do twice as many tests. Something like 70,000. But the positivity rate was still at 13%. Not good. They keep needing to add numbers to the bar graphs now. Mike Pence and the Coronavirus task force held a press conference for the first time, and Pence touted out a success story, saying we flattened the curve. What the hell graph is he looking at?!
Not just that, but Pasco County is seeing a huge increase. My mom told me Sandusky county saw 2 new cases. But, we're seeing a steep increase here.
I'm sorry, but I find this totally alarming. Now yesterday, right after the numbers came out, Florida "closed" all bars. (I say closed, but you can still sell drinks to-go in sealed containers). The Hangar Bar at Disney had just opened on Friday, and just over 24 hours later they had to shut down again.
So that brings me to Disney. In two weeks, they're supposed to open. Most experts agree it is worse in Florida than it was in March when everything shut down. So why are we reopening? Why didn't we use our shutdown time to put in the infastructure to test and trace properly to not get back right here. And like, what the hell is the plan? Because I'm sorry, but a few cities issuing mask orders for inside, and bars being closed doesn't seem like it's enough at this point.
And the messaging here is so- excuse my language- but fucked up. The Florida Department of Health is tweeting that you should stay home as much as possible, even order delivery for groceries and take out. But, every day I get a notification something new is open, or some new event is being held. Museums, restaurants, amusement parks- they all want you to come on down. 'We're open!', 'Welcome Back'. There's summer camps going on. My lodge is hosting Taco Tuesday.
Disney: 'We're hosting the NBA next month! Reserve your park dates! We open in two weeks!'
Also Disney: "We're going to go ahead and delay the opening of Mulan again." (You know, because people shouldn't be going to movies- but can be going to amusement parks?!)
Oh, and Mike Pence: 'Totes safe for a rally in Arizona"
Also Mike Pence: "Yea, I'm gonna go ahead and delay my visit to Florida I was supposed to do next week".
I wish I could trust someone, anyone to tell me it's safe. Or there's a plan to make it safe. But alas, I get nothing. So, we stay home, day after day. And what a first world problem that is. I have a nice house, in a nice neighborhood. I have netflix and a blanket fort. Asa's job isn't effected, our income hasn't changed. But at the same time, I am like, we are a first world country, we should be able to get our shit together to have a plan.
That girl that got fired from the Covid-dashboard too, was the one who said they were going to dump a bunch of cases this week so numbers looked better next week and people would go out for the 4th of July. That doesn't look so far fetched now. I mean, wouldn't 5,000 cases be a good day at this point?
It doesn't help the governor has nothing to say about all of this. When I turned on CNN last night, the reporter was talking about how they get DeSantis's schedule for that day at like 6 pm, when he's done with all his events for the day, so nobody knows where or when he'll be available for questions. He has said the death rate remains low, and the hospitals are not overwhelmed. We don't know, because Florida is one of the states that doesn't publish their hospital data.
*Sigh*
And in all of that, we have a Saharan dust cloud overhead.
Yesterday I could taste it in the air. Today not so much. Add to that our ridiculous heat wave. Tampa tied their ALL TIME RECORD HIGH (of 99) yesterday. Meanwhile, in Land O Lakes it was a measly 98 degrees. The Gulf temp is over 90 degrees. Not that I'm going to the beach, so it doesn't really matter does it?
For now, we are still house sitting, so we still have the neighbors pool. Hayden, Asa and I were over after lunch yesterday.
When we came home, Calib was begging Asa to change his computer back to normal. Asa had pranked (or punished him- after an NCAA game) by making Breitbart Calib's home screen.
Asa and I went out to get dinner, and noticed all the work had started on the new town homes at the exit to our subdivision. They're burning trees, and it makes me so sad. I never stopped to pet the cows there. If there is one thing this year taught me, is you better do things when you want to do them, or you might never get to.
We got curbside from Panera to have bagels for the weekend (and to cash in on our free coffees we can get every two hours until September- a highlight of my week), and curbside at Moes, since we had BOGO burrito coupons.
We ate over at the pool and them swam for a while.
This morning we got a fun Amazon delivery, Asa's squeeze bottles came, so he whipped up some garlic aoli. He had plans for lots of sauces, but the new fridge is coming on Wednesday, so we're trying to empty this one out as much as possible.
After the numbers came out today, we decided we needed some coping mechanisms. Puzzles are good for that. So we're onto our Peter Pan puzzle.
And the pool works too. We took lunch over to the pool and swam a bit.
And then we spent some time in the blanket fort. Asa and Hayden played Civ, while I worked on stuff for a presidential birthday- we still haven't gotten to George H.W. Bush (his birthday was June 12th). Trump's is also in June. But, I don't have it in me to do his birthday right now. We're skipping it.
It was another scorcher out there today.
So we decided a second pool trip was in order.
We grilled out for dinner with brats and hamburgers. It's nice not to heat up the house with the oven right now.
And we might have had an extra visitor to the pool today. (He likes it, I think).
Things spiraled out of control after a game of volleyball though. Peyton eating pie in the pool is all of us trying to cope with the summer of 2020. Us then all spending an hour coming up with pie and pastry puns because we have nothing else to do, is basically the whole year. (Calib was so bad at it, at one point I took a 15 minute video that is hilarious- but I'm saving posting it for a rainy day).
I mean, Peyton, Hayden, Asa, and I are supposed to be in Orlando right now for CEO. It's like the highlight of the year for them (I'm more along to make sure everyone eats), so it's sad. It blows when you're turn is up for missing something you were really looking forward to.
And to think, Peyton is about to have his birthday in quarantine too. I never would have imagined when Asa had his. *Sigh* I'll probably be up next.
Most popular "hurricane snacks": Um, mini pies are BOGO at Publix. (I told Peyton I would order some on Wednesday- the last day of the week so he could have lots of birthday pies)
Current binge watching obsession: We watched another Modern Love Episode last night, and we started 'Floor is Lava', which is like... desperate times, you know?
Most popular game: The entire time I've been blogging, they've been playing Rock Band in the other room.
Boredness scale 1 to 10: Sometimes an 8. Sometimes a 2. It really comes in waves.
Frozen II Watchthroughs: We're stuck at 49 because we want to do something for the 50th watch thru, but don't know what to do. (see: same as yesterday)
How many times we've walked the loop: 68. It's too fricken hot.
Days Down: 106
Days Remaining: Undetermined
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