Pandemic planning

We have a plan. This is it. You should have read it you fucking idiots.

The US government had a plan for dealing with the current crisis. In fact, the US government has a plan for almost any crisis. Unfortunately, the US government is currently in the hands of a pack of reprobates, so you're going to have to make your own plan. Here are some things to think about while doing so:

• The timeline is months, not weeks, and the weeks we've just been through aren't a very good guide for the ones to come. Don't freak out, but do overprepare.
• Understand that there is enough of everything for everyone, but that things may become (even more) unevenly and irregularly distributed. Don't hoard, but do stock up. Avoid panic buying: take inventory, put together a shopping list, and then get online or in line for some deliveries. If able to shop local, do so: those businesses are hurting. But call ahead to check stocking status and don't leave home without your sanitizer.
• Prepare for a scenario where all of the adults in the house are knocked out simultaneously for a week or more. Teach the children how to use a toilet plunger and make sure there's food available that they can prepare without setting the house on fire. I think that about covers that.
• Take care of parents and oldsters around you. They are surely not ready and, of course, are the ones in most danger.
• You're going to be spending a lot more time at home. Make it a place you want to be: clean up, repair, redecorate. Live alone? Maybe get a goldfish.
• Don't spend too much time at home! Get out at least twice a day, if only for a walk around the block, and whether or not you feel like it.
• Take lots of photos. You're going to see things you've never seen before.
• Music all the time, a moment of celebration daily.
• One day this will end and we will return to our normal commercial relationships...if we pay it forward and help the people we do business with now. Have a favorite restaurant? Buy a few meals' worth of gift certificates right away. Have a maid? Pay him for the duration even though he won't be doing your dusting.
• Last and least, try seeing this from the virus's point of view.

And call your mother, she worries.