Checking In

[twistedchick]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time on Sunday) now to midnight UT (8pm Monday Eastern Time).

Poll #24283 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 55

How are you doing?

I am OK
46 (83.6%)

I am not OK but I don't need help right now
8 (14.5%)

I could use some help
1 (1.8%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
23 (41.8%)

One other person
19 (34.5%)

More than one other person
13 (23.6%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Comments

[bktheirregular]

Family's going to be in Athens for a couple of weeks more, although they've all tested clean and no longer feel a need to quarantine themselves. My brother's camping out on my couch while my folks are rooming in my aunt's larger apartment a short walk up the hill. Dad needed some dental work, which normally (pre-COVID) would have been taken care of in New York, but with the lockdown, and especially their high-risk status, it ended up being done here in Athens (well, the part of it that's done; there's a follow-up due late next week).

Just from looking at the numbers, Athens is almost infinitely safer than New York right now.

And yet the most important person in my life is back in the US and barred from coming to visit me, and until there's a vaccine, the risks of me traveling to the US have been deemed unacceptable.

So while the burden has largely lifted for my parents and brother (who seems to be in an almost-PTSD-like mental state), it still weighs on me, if not as heavily in absolute terms.