I keep forgetting how comfortable I am....

There are now 1.3 million NYC residents without a job, according to @NYCMayor. The eviction moratorium has expired and cases have started to be filed.

— Gloria Pazmino (@GloriaPazmino) August 6, 2020

....sitting at home, conducting a class on my computer, only going out for groceries occasionally.

BREAKING: 1.2 million filed NEW unemployment claims last week, a decline of 249,000 from the prior week.

It's the lowest level since the crisis started but the 20th week of over a million jobless claims.

Bottom line: A lot of layoffs are becoming permanent at this point.

— Heather Long (@byHeatherLong) August 6, 2020

Life is full of other people, however; and I am reminded again it's not just about me.

I reached a point of real depression around all this. Yesterday a coworker and I needed lunch and we walked to a take out place on the main street in Manchester, NH. The sidewalks were moderately populated and so we were wearing our masks. The driver of a car going by leaned out his window and screamed at us to take off our masks. My coworker is from Texas and a big guy, he was ready to rumble. As a more reserved Yankee I would have been satisfied with telling the driver to engage in an anatomically impossible sex act. The driver sped off before either could occur. Then today on a work call, a legal colleague that I have only met once or twice because of remote working (I had been warned by someone else that he is very conservative and has a shrine to Trump in his office) started going on about the uselessness of masks, called Fauci a liar several times and more. I found I was suddenly late for another call when he launched into an explanation that COVID-19 was created by Chinese scientists.

And we have 5 days to decide if our two younger children have hybrid or solely remote learning.

A large part of America has totally abandoned its senses. I am watching formerly sensible moderate conservatives spirally off into conspiracy theories. Watching other states packing schools with kids and no masks is criminal, it will come with a death toll along with an unknown amount of long term illness. We have truly decided things and ideas are more important than people.

Through all of this I just have not felt this low about where we are and where we are heading as a country.

And school is going to start soon, and honestly I think shit just hits the fan worse than it did this summer.