Self-Isolation Day #55

Thursday, Self-Isolation Day #55

We request continued prayers for my husband's mother D. She has been sick with COVID-19 for about five weeks (now negative, but still sick) and is now out of ICU and recovering at a long-term, acute care facility. She is still on a ventilator, and we are told this facility specializes in breathing therapy to get her independent of the ventilator. 



Today consisted of (not enough) school, (too much) television, music lessons (which should be our last ones over Zoom!), John working his mowing contract, my doing really fun lesson planning for a light summer routine, various of us reading Sherlock Holmes, and children playing outdoors in the gorgeous weather.

While we were starting school, these two munchkins were having Second Breakfast . . .

Second Breakfast

I realize that I do not remember to record the finished piano pieces of Joseph (7), so this morning I recorded his "Scherzo."



Nowadays when David makes a mess, such as dumping a whole bowl of trail mix on the floor, he immediately runs for the broom (which he is unable to use effectively at all). I'm starting to think he might be making messes on purpose so he's allowed to use a broom.

David showing me his collection of "treasures!" that he found around the yard. He kept telling me that the leaves came from "the crunchy tree" and that he needed to "get a ladder" and some "tape" to "fix it!"

Bonus Reading for Posterity:

• I find this recent data fascinating and it reminds me of the findings early on that most of those in northern Italy who caught COVID caught it in their homes. I'll be so curious to learn more about what this all means. (Majority Of New Coronavirus Cases In New York Are From People Staying At Home—Not Traveling Or Working.)
• Neil Fergusson has now resigned and what is really the scandal is not his breaking lockdown for his extramarital affair, but his entire career. Read the models he ran for decades: they're shocking! (‘Professor Lockdown’ Modeler Resigns in Disgrace.)
• "A common counter argument to this plan is this: if many people get back to work, and businesses open again, then some of the people who want to stay locked down might be compelled by their employers to come back to their jobs. These people might be in a position, then, of losing their jobs if they decide to remain in lockdown while millions of other Americans try to get the economic engines humming again. This strikes me as an ironic and hypocritical concern. After all, if you are pro-lockdown, then you believe that 33 million lost jobs is a price worth paying. Indeed, you have probably even scolded the people worried about losing their jobs for “putting money before human life.” But now that you stand to lose your own job, suddenly job loss is a problem? 33 million unemployed people isn’t enough to justify opening the economy, but one lost job – yours – is enough to justify keeping it closed? Do you see why this line of reasoning is not particularly endearing or persuasive?" (If You Want To Stay Home, Stay Home. Let The Rest Of Us Get Back To Our Lives.)