Apr 27-29 - more mangroves; more riding

Have you heard that tune before ? 

Florida is opening up, perhaps.  What that means in practice, time will tell.  I was watching a news clip with an interview of a nail salon person in Georgia and they're open but have no customers.  That's similar to what I've been hearing about life in Wuhan/Hubei.  Restaurants open, no customers, close again.  There needs to be a certain amount of traffic to keep these small businesses in business. 

Chet and Jean arrived back home driving down from their place in Idaho - easy drive, many trucks and few cars.  May 1 approacheth ... normally we'd be thinking about packing, leaving end of next week perhaps, but we're probably a month off.

I went into the hospital twice - once to pickup urine and stool sample kits and then for my annual blood labs.  You run the gauntlet going in - temp check, hand sanitizer, mask - and on the way out - hand sanitizer.  When I went back carry my bag of samples, there was no sanitizer; perhaps they simply figured that they'd have to sanitize the bag too.

I stood at the intake desk forever while intake person # 1 checked me in.  I had to move closer than the marks on the floor to hand over cards and for us both to understand each other.  Beside her, intake person # 2 was constantly fiddling with her mask as she was adjusting for comfort and to drink coffee.  Even the hospitals don't have this under control yet.

Going up to the lab window, the air was blowing out - positive pressure - but in order to take my samples bag, she had to put on fresh gloves.  We are definitely entering a new world of disposable.  Landfills will be full of gloves and masks.

The nurse was very good at drawing blood and a few hours later the results were online.  Tomorrow, May 1, I have my Dr appointment ... not sure if that will be in person or phone.  I exchanged notes with my urologist - another of my annual visits - and we'll delay until the fall.  Nothing new on that score as evidenced by my labs.  I doubt if I'll get my eyes checked or see the dermatologist before the fall ... of get my teeth cleaned next week ?  Not sure.

Big business could come back onstream quickly but without small business making money, there won't be as many people to spend money ... this is going to be a long, long road.

I suppose that it's due to the lack of restaurants being open but this year we have more tuna and pompano at OceanS than we could possibly eat.  We usually end up with more flounder and snapper.

Talked to Stef; not much new there.  Talked to Jeffrey; not sure if they're coming down.  Sandy talked to Vanda (or exchanged messages, not sure which).

Onward ...