Life During Wartime?

[dewline]

Seems to me as if we're now on a sort of wartime footing. No specific enemy nation-state or "non-state actor" that we're up against here. In this case, the "sharp end of the spear" is hospitals and virology and genetic research labs right now.

How about you? Are you getting the same feeling?

I'm hearing that CBC Ottawa is going to try to make sure that teleworking technology will allow Ed Lawrence to do his weekly gardening phone-in with Ontario Today after noon EST.

I still consider myself under financial and ethical obligation to keep looking for work. Pandemic rules will be an obstacle to this obligation. I don't know how to square that circle right now. My job alert e-mails from Workopolis, Indeed, Jobilico, the federal Job Bank, etc. are still coming in, so I'll keep looking at those.

Some of you have offered financial assistance (publicly or privately), and I thank you again for that. No sure how best to answer that, so I'm going to keep that up my sleeve for the moment.

Comments

[sabotabby]

I think war is a decent metaphor, in a 1940s "everyone pull together" kind of way. Only it needs to apply to the whole world.

[dewline]

This is a truth.

[thewayne]

I just received my last 'full' paycheck, I get paid twice a month and my next two checks will be reduced. We can afford it, and if I reduce my credit card payments to cover the interest charge, it's not a problem, just not how I like to do things. But since I'm not charging to them, I can be grumpy about them for a while.

On the plus side, I finished our tax returns last night and they were accepted this morning, so we'll be getting those in a couple of weeks, and that'll be plenty to cover up for my making nothing for a few weeks if my immunologist says to hunker down.

[dewline]

I'm still sorry for the pains resulting from this.

[thewayne]

It is what it is. And as was written by the bard, shit happens.