Anonymous wrote:Our family appreciates Elrich and his leadership. Maybe you guys should just move to Florida where you will be happy.

I doubt most would be happy in Florida. They are starting to open some businesses but what I hear is that pools aren't open there either. Not because chlorinated water is a threat but because groups of people would congregate at the pools. So unless you have your own private pool they aren't swimming much in Florida either despite the temps in the 90s for a month or more already. Maybe that will change by June or July but I wouldn't count on it. If the numbers of cases and deaths in Florida rise as a result of reopening businesses then they will likely have to take a step back.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup! I hear ya! I am obsessing over Nutcracker auditions (was supposed to be this weekend) and will they reschedule? Are they going to have a Nutcracker performance next December? Fingers crossed. I am choosing to stay positive.

My serious dancer is terribly concerned about this same thing. I honestly don't see how it happens. How do you socially distance backstage? How can they afford to run the theaters with such lowered capacity? I've hesitated to discuss this with my daughter...

DP. Me too! I'm a little happy there are a few others with whom I can commiserate about this. It's such a frivolous concern, all things considered and many people have much bigger problems, but still I'm sad and DD will be too if it doesn't happen.

My DD missed opportunity for spring performances. Our Nutcracker auditions are not until fall but I'm wondering if those will fall through too? And this was the year she was old enough for some "big" parts. If Nutcracker doesn't happen, how does the company survive? Nutcracker pretty much provides the finances for the entire year.

We should be fully enjoying outdoor activities to the fullest while we can before next winter comes and we are all stuck inside again still social distancing.

I plan to make the most of it.

OP, I totally hear you. I'm mostly ok with things and obviously am compliant with my state's SAH order but every time it is extended, or every time we get more bad news (e.g. no access to the lakefront -- I live in Chicago -- for for the foreseeable future) it just is such a blow. And then I feel like "can't complain, helping save lives' but I also want to complain!

And, yeah. I just read an article in the NYT about how something like 2 of 1200 cases of transmission in China came through outdoor contact. So it just is so lame to keep all of these outdoor places closed.

I have a 1 year old and a 4 year old and it's impossible to balance work and their care (not to mention "educating" them, lol). I just want to go to the outdoor pool/splash pad, or the playground, but... alas. Still closed.

Our family appreciates Elrich and his leadership. Maybe you guys should just move to Florida where you will be happy.

Anonymous wrote:I would be pissed, OP. It seems really wrong to close pools and splash parks for the ENTIRE summer in mid-May. If things are that dire, then salons, bars, gyms, etc. should also be closed.

YES!!

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Anonymous wrote:It's OK to hate, but it's better than you getting sick and dying and your children not having a parent. It's better than your child dying and you wishing you didn't go to the pool that day.

OP here and I HATE THESE comments. If I go to the store more often, my kids could die. If I get my hair cut Friday, I could die.

I want REAL FACTS. What are MY chances of dying friday after getting my eyebrows waxed?

I HATE THIS.

Wow op. Your eyebrows, really??

Anonymous wrote:It's OK to hate, but it's better than you getting sick and dying and your children not having a parent. It's better than your child dying and you wishing you didn't go to the pool that day.

OP here and I HATE THESE comments. If I go to the store more often, my kids could die. If I get my hair cut Friday, I could die.

I want REAL FACTS. What are MY chances of dying friday after getting my eyebrows waxed?

I HATE THIS.

Anonymous wrote:I would be pissed, OP. It seems really wrong to close pools and splash parks for the ENTIRE summer in mid-May. If things are that dire, then salons, bars, gyms, etc. should also be closed.

Public owned facilities are closed because they cost governments money the likely don’t have and present a risk of contagion. Most employees were college kids etc, and lots of pools needed J1 lifeguards.

Businesses are opening up because they will generate positive economic activity, and hopefully tax revenue.

I was kind of down for a while too. For some reason this past week I have turned a corner with it. It feels like my brain just adapted to he new limitations of life. I don’t feel imprisoned or stuck. I don’t read the news. I have accepted that this is the situation until at least next March, and that is ok. Instead of thinking about what we are missing, I find myself thinking “well at least we can...” (visit family after both quarantining this summer, go on hikes, have a vegetable garden, drop off gifts for our friends), or “maybe we can...” (make ice cream at home, finally do our wedding album after 10 years, tackle house projects we never have time for). I don’t know. It is far from ideal but life is going on. Two months have already passed and not all of it has been bad. We will find ways to keep busy and learn new things until this ends.

I hate the pointlessness of it all. Some states are fully open. Some are not. What’s the point of locking down if everyone else is out and about.

I’m here for the venting. Also in MoCo and furious that we have no sense of what the metrics are, or the plan to improve what needs to be improved. I am mad that the state made a big splash of acquiring 500,000 tests weeks ago, but we still aren’t testing nursing residents and staff apparently. And I get emails fro various council members saying they have sent a proposal for a plan to be considered at future meetings for maybe more testing at some undetermined future date, which never actually comes.
And I cannot fathom a summer for me and my 14-year old nay child with no pool. An entire summer of sitting at home? There will be some very serious mental health consequences. I don’t know that I will make it out with my mental health. For real.

Anonymous wrote:Yup! I hear ya! I am obsessing over Nutcracker auditions (was supposed to be this weekend) and will they reschedule? Are they going to have a Nutcracker performance next December? Fingers crossed. I am choosing to stay positive.

My serious dancer is terribly concerned about this same thing. I honestly don't see how it happens. How do you socially distance backstage? How can they afford to run the theaters with such lowered capacity? I've hesitated to discuss this with my daughter...

It's OK to hate, but it's better than you getting sick and dying and your children not having a parent. It's better than your child dying and you wishing you didn't go to the pool that day.

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Anonymous wrote:I feel for all of you with young ones- it's gotta be so tough. This won't go on forever and know that good times are coming.

+1. I remember the days when my kids were all under age 5 and it was an ordeal. I adore my kids, but those ages are just really exhausting, and this lockdown must make an already challenging time so so hard!

OP here. MY heart goes out to high schoolers, tweens, college kids at home. I’m exhausted, physically, but I’m not managing my children’s anxiety either. They are young and happy and free. And go to bed at 6:15.