Someone who calls himself "Norm" wrote to ask me…
I'm from Cincinnati, Ohio. When I walk into a store in Cincinnati and see someone wearing a mask, I wonder: "Where did that get that mask?"
Stores are all out. Online stores are out. Where they are taking orders, like Amazon, shipping time is mid-May to June.
What's more, health workers are having to reuse masks and ppe and officials are stating that they need them more than the public. So where did you get your mask, Mark?
I went up and robbed Clayton Moore's grave. No, really, mine came from under my bathroom sink. About ten years ago when I was having some work done on my house, I bought a box of masks because I didn't want to inhale sawdust or dirt or other things that got kicked up into the air by the workers. When the current panic commenced and I realized I should have a mask for visits out of my house, I dug under the sink and found the box with two left in it and it said they were good for stopping germs and things of that nature.
The bands on them were kind of flimsy and didn't make the tightest seals so I replaced the rubber ones with cloth strips with Velcro® so I could adjust the fit. I wore one to my doctor's office and he inspected it and said it was fine. Sometimes, you get lucky. I also found four full-sized bottles of hand sanitizer under there and three pocket-sized ones which I was given at various comic conventions where I was a guest. I have shared these with a couple of neighbors.
Things are peaceful here in the Fortress of Solitude. I'm behind in watching Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and last night's Bill Maher because, while I very much admire what those gents are doing at this time, I find I'm happier when I don't think that much about Donald "I get all the credit for everything good that happens on my watch and everything bad that happens is someone else's fault" Trump.
Last night, I got a food delivery from a local restaurant I've always wanted to try and never will again.
The cats are fine. Here are Lydia and Murphy sleeping almost side by side, oblivious to what's going on all around them…
Must be nice. Actually, I have nothing to complain about apart from all these people getting sick and dying in far greater numbers than could have happened under competent leadership. When I accidentally caught a smidgen of news, Lindsey Graham seemed to be arguing that the last thing we should do is to have committees investigate what went wrong here. He probably wants to instead look into Hunter Biden's finances or at least hold the twenty-ninth round of hearings on Benghazi because, you know, four Americans died in that attack.
And that's as snarky/political as I'm going to get right now. The less I stew over that stuff, the better I am right now. I think I'll link to a lot of fun stuff this weekend. We could all use a lot of fun stuff.