Day One of the Coronapocalypse

The government announced a state of emergency yesterday afternoon, and I, by virtue of being off, was blissfully unaware. My first inkling that something had happened was when I walked into the grocery to buy popcorn for movie night. “Get back,” spat the woman in front of me at the checkout counter, “I’m not letting any of you nasty people near me.” She was wearing a Japan-standard face mask and a deli counter plastic glove on her right hand.

She then proceeded to use her ungloved left hand to accept soiled paper currency from the cashier, after which she rubbed her eye—soiled currency still in hand.

So that is the level of intelligent rationality we’re dealing with down here.

( Other signs of of our impending 'fear itself' social meltdown: )

Otherwise, it has been an eventful month. More on this later as my regularly scheduled occupational and social activities continue to be canceled.

これで以上です。