TL;DR Nissan lost. On my way to my essential job this morning at 5:45 am, met a deer on the road. Kicker was, I was going in at 6 instead of 7 and could have avoided this whole fiasco. Pictures here.

So today I put up a ceiling fan with a light fixture for Susie’s parents. No biggie, it went well and I replaced their old dimmer switch with a new rocker switch. Cool. When I was finished I told Pete that it was done and he was busy watching Guv Wolf’s daily brief. He got up from his chair to tell me that the pandemic was created to ruin the economy because that’s the only thing “they” couldn’t take away from Trump, and they will use it to take away his re-election. ...

1 million people infected worldwide. 1,000,000. With an “M” It’s very sobering. It started on the other side of the world. You think, “Wow, sucks for them.” Now it’s here and killed almost 6,000 in the US alone. Scary shit, man.

It’s been a few days, but nothing has really been happening, besides massive increases in infections. Woot. Yesterday, on freaking April Fool’s Day, Wolf ordered the whole state to stay-at-home. #stayathome So what did Mason and I do? Went to Walmart. And what a shit-show. Some fine folks from Berwick were on hand to make the trip memorable. It was totally People Of Walmart yesterday. They had the entrance and exit separated by a line of carts, and caution tape to keep people from mingling. And the masses were upset to be told to keep their social distance. Truly a sight to behold. ...

So as all Cardinal Wilkes-Barre employees learned on Friday, our illustrious Plant Manager values money over employee health and wellness. We can watch the number of infected people rise alarmingly everyday, and see that he remains unconcerned, calling this pandemic “No Big Deal!” We received hard copies today, of a letter to inform PSP that we are, in fact, allowed to work during the shutdown. The fucks! So today I wore an N95 mask all day, and gloved up for every call I answered. ...

Got the call from Giant today, went for an interview, got hired, and literally as I was walking in the door got a call from Dave saying the plant is open. I’m going into work tomorrow.

Applied for a job at Giant today. Also tried to open an unemployment claim and the website is crashed. Wunderbar!

So the higher-ups came through and are going to follow the ban. Free vacation! Now, how do I get paid??

I guess it’s time to start a Coronavirus blog. Friday March 13th, Governor Wolf declares all schools statewide to close for 2 weeks. Tentative reopening date of March 30th. Not much really happened between then and now, aside from thousands of new cases worldwide and close to 200 he in PA. Oh, and 10,030 total dead at the time of this publication. Thursday March 19th, Governor Wolf orders all non-life-saving businesses to close by 8pm. My employer is going to have meetings about possibly closing tomorrow. We make fucking windows. For Canada. ...