COVID blog - Day 12 - Enforcement

mostly makes sense. lots of high-touch surfaces.

Well, that answers my “playgrounds on nice days” question.  I wonder about enforcement… it will probably be enforced "socially" mostly, I suppose.  That said, I don’t see why a court needs to be shut down.  There is a kid who’s been getting shots up almost every day of this quarantine.  He’s not allowed anymore?  Why not just have the sign say “courts are closed to group play” otherwise it might as well say “Want to get outside and shoot some hoops just to stay active? Sorry kid, shoulda had richer parents who put up a basket in your driveway.”

Speaking of enforcement, I’ve been seeing more police around lately.  Driving through our neighborhood (which is generally not common) and on a run today I saw a police car driving on the prairie path.  On such a nice day, the path was absolutely packed… I turned off before we crossed paths, but I wonder what he was doing on the path.  It’s a rarity to see a police vehicle there because it’s such an obstruction.  I wonder if they’re just trying to enforce distancing, or if they’re posting officers on the path because of increased traffic to reduce potential incidents, or if they are shutting down the path… which would be sad. 

Lastly, speaking of the prairie path… I ran 5 miles today.  It wasn’t fast, but I haven’t run 5 miles in a while—which I think it weird because I can remember a time in life when that was essentially a “minimum” mileage for me.  Sigh.

I wasn’t going to go for 5… I’ve run 21 out of the last 25 days and didn’t want the accumulated mileage to add up too quickly… but when I mentioned that to Kelly she gave me a look like she didn't fully respect this conservative choice, like: “seriously? 5 is too far” and at that point I would have run 5 miles on one leg.  Heck, I would have traveled 5 miles without using any limbs at all—just using my teeth to bite the ground in front of me and drag myself the 5 miles. 

Listen, I can take a quarantine, and kids climbing on me nonstop, and working from home, and being in bad shape, and having people just FLY past me when I’m running, and running in the dark because of crazy schedules with work and kids, but I can NOT tolerate getting flak from Kelly.  That woman ran a half marathon while pregnant, and then later carried TWO humans inside her diminutive frame for 9 months… I will never out-achieve her physically… but I can’t sit idly by while being mocked.  Plus, now if my knee gives out it will be her fault, and she'll have to take care of me, so win-win.