"...fucking peachy"

*My Covid Journal from two years ago today. May 23, 2020.

Once upon a time:

Now for life among the lowly which is near all of us now. An unending procession of ambulances continues in my 'Hood. As ya know NYC is a Pandemic War Zone. There's even bad spots in hell, and I happen to live in one. My sister messaged me telling me to never leave my digs.

My local Brooklyn hood is one of the worse hit in the whole City.

Sylvia sez have everything delivered,...I loves that kid...stuck with me though everything. Family is all. They'll put up with your annoying bleep, and be there anyway. ...to the last day.

Anyway she sez sterilize the stuff when it gets here. I more or less do that when I did my own shopping. $14.75 for one package of beef franks. That was the high point in local gouging.

Eh...I really don't want hot dogs that bad.

Still no dairy little bread skimpy on chicken, and stewing meats,...they closed the butcher shop, and the meat dept. at the supermarket. The plague is doing it's work on the midwestern meat packing outfits. I think a bunch of us will be Vegetarians after this. That, and we'll all have ingrained habits of extreme cleanliness.

Also folks in the building are being cool. I get knocks. Neighbors asking through the door if I'm okay. This after we lost a few. We're all social distanced now. That's how we do it here. Everybody seems with the program. Knock don't open, and yack through da damned door.

COVID is finally hitting the South, Midwest, and parts of the out west checker board States.

Them folks is where we were in mid-March. They may be surprised when the plague ignores their guns,...and their Jebus. This will be very interesting to watch through the summer.

Me I'm fine.

Mostly,...have weird symptoms, but nothing that sez curtains. Looking online there's a lot of this crap floating around the City,...non-specific scary symptoms. They say it's the long term stress. Yeah I hope so.

I'll have to put off that gala parade to celebrate my 70th birthday. If I'm still breathing I'll do a double parade for my 71st in July 2021.

How are you folks?

Yeah it's hard weird overwhelming.

Like we're all stuck badly written end of the world flick.

Not even any popcorn. Our horror movie has an insane head of state abetting a plague. That, and it's victims are insisting on being infected.

This movie we're stuck in even has UFOs.

The Pentagon just re-issued their statement admitting that "...unknown advanced aircraft" have been buzzing our aircraft carriers, and assorted land facilities for years. They say they'll issue more next year sometime,...can hardly wait.

Weirdly this is being met with indifference. ...again. In rational times this would have been front page noise. The government after 70 years of lying is coming clean, and nobody gives a bleep.

Godzilla could wander up the Hudson, and wouldn't cause a stir.

Sure we'd take selfies with the guy, and all. But that would be it. He'd probably settle in Queens at the old fair grounds. There he is below painting his new digs. He's a nice guy good neighbor. ...even walks dogs for folks.

New York is like that all welcome...sort of, eventually.

So unless the sun explodes it looks to me like there's no problem. You guys stay safe. Want you to be here for the 2021 National Block Party after this is over.

*2022 update. As you know there was no block party.

Instead, more variants of Covid. These airborne and even more infectious. Plenty of collapsed economies chaos in the streets. Routine mass shootings. Random assaults and killings common. Nazis on the rise and a new World War in Europe. There's thousands of blown up Russian armor all over da place...but the war drags on. Putin's hoards can't win. So they're doing scorched earth. See mayhem below. Fucking deranged maniacs. Lately Nukes on the table.

All that and vaccines that only partly work. Ya need a booster every few months. We're having a ball around here. Can't wait for more interesting shit to happen. Fucking peachy. Still no block parties in sight. I put my party hat away. Doubt I'll ever need it. Fallout Shelters might be a good idea though. Duck and cover.