HP and me. (And a sharp PC-1300S

[johnb]

(04-17-2024 05:28 PM)Geoff Quickfall Wrote:  ...I was tested once a week for two years! Sometimes by airport authorities who were aggressive at times, verbally and physically with the testing equipment.

What gets me, I was flying passenger aircraft (787) converted to freighter to fly emergency equipment and PPE’s back to Canada and the States and being treated like a criminal (guilty and exposed before the trial).

Fear will do that to people. I'm sincerely sorry you had to deal with that. How awful!

I was about to post that doing a self-lockdown during Covid was pretty easy for me, because I was a submariner in my youth, and got used to weeks/months of being submerged. As a software engineer during the Covid lockdown, I was still glued to my workstation 8-9 hours out of every workday as usual, but now in my nice, comfy home office, able to look out the windows at the weather, and take afternoon walks in the sunshine.

However, in retrospect, "easy" was not really the case, because my mom, who was in her 90's, didn't know what to do with herself during the lockdown, so she just sat on her sofa and started deteriorating. It was very frustrating because she had been going to the gym 3 times a week, which kept her very physically active. But without the social motivation, she didn't exercise. We ended up having to move her in with us for a little over a year, then to a care facility. She lived to be 97.5 years old, but all indications were that she would have made it past 100 if she'd just kept exercising.

When considering that, I have to remind myself that the "past 100" part is pure speculation, and also that others dealt with far, far worse. So, not exactly "easy" but not "horrible" either. I certainly didn't have to deal with Neanderthal authority-types fearfully intent on following rules they didn't understand.