LOL well I guess the big city of Oneonta is also all set now for two weeks at least... it's not 39 new cases of covid-19 the SUNY kids brought to the area, it's over a hundred now... and so the governor has sent in a SWAT team of 71 contact tracers and 8 case investigators plus testing equipment for the whole city to use at three sites by appointment (the kind you get results back in 15 minutes).
So I may not have NY strip steaks in the freezer, and that's by choice, but I do have an attentively on-the-case governor and state resources to get my access to perishable groceries restored to point where I will feel safe ordering stuff for Instacart to bring out to the boondocks again pretty soon.
Meanwhile what's for dinner tonight is still pretty delicious since I do have at least some stuff left from the last time I ordered: fresh broccoli, red bell peppers, mushrooms, onions, tacking in some shelf-stable tofu, some canned sliced water chestnuts and stir fry all that and put it over some hokkien noodles with teriyaki sauce.
I'm gonna live in style like that for about another three days and then hit up my freezer and the back yard... and meanwhile make some voodoo dolls that might could look a lot like SUNY-O students, ya think? Five of them have got themselves suspended so far. Maybe the rest will think twice about ad hoc and unauthorized parties in town during the time of the coronavirus.
I wonder if any of those state boys they brought up here for the SWAT contact tracking had the good sense to bring a few Chinese line cooks with them who might be looking for work up here. We can use the competition locally and the state guys are about to discover that...
