Thanks, that’s nice and thoughtful of you.
You can’t believe the stress, actually there is a GPS trace of your package online, I was looking at that on Friday, at one point the truck was just one street away from my home, and 15 minutes later when I checked again. it left to another city, I really wanted to cry! The technology is sometime making things worse.
I suspect the mod for this board will allow a lot of leeway.
I’m in the Philly suburbs . . . we’ve been completely shut down since March 16. Now they’re asking that we don’t even go grocery shopping. Mom and I both have prescriptions to be picked up, but they want us to wear masks to enter the store. They usually provide free delivery, but not now 
NY/NJ/PA are severely affected. Delaware has troopers at the state border turning people away.
In an interview with Stephen Colbert last week, John Oliver delivered a worthy analysis of America’s Covidiots. Many if not most nations have, within living memory, been invaded. The USA has not. (9/11 is the closest we came to being attacked on our own soil.) We have sent our own young people to fight on foreign soil but it’s nearly 50 years since they were conscripted to do so, and over 70 years since average Americans were required to do their part in a war effort, individually, via rationing of food and other resources. The people who lived through that time are dwindling in number, and they put those years behind them as they raised their children, the Baby Boomers. He says that altruism and sacrifice haven’t been stressed as American virtues for several generations. The younger they are, the more Americans’ mindset is that “it’s a free country” and they have the right to do whatever they please. That’s a broad brush characterization, and there are notable exceptions, but it does explain how little public spirit we are seeing in a large chunk of the population. It also helps explain America’s slow response to the emerging viral threat. This sort of thing is “supposed to” happen elsewhere, not here.
Yes, @gaffk, watching the news from that part of the country is scary indeed. Since my part of our country was the original epicenter in the US, we have been living with it awhile now, with the stay at home orders extended through May 4th. The exception being outdoor exercise, and errands for essential items.
Regarding the need to p/u Rx’s for yourself and your elderly mom: you may want to consider going to customer service, and asking them to bring your drugs to the front of the store, explaining your connection to your elderly mom. My 94 year old dad, and his younger, but frailer gf did just that, a couple days ago in Utah, and they were very graciously accommodated. Just a thought.
Here in the middle of NJ I have been picking up prescriptions for some elderly folks too.
Good thought @Lambchop. I’m less than a 1/4 mile from the pharmacy, so I think I’ll call ahead . Neither of us take anything that can be abused (unless people really like statins or prescription-level lidocaine).
Nice! This pandemic is in many ways bringing out the best in some of us too. I hope we can all remember the kindness and need to watch out for, and help others, once we make it to the other side of our current crisis.
Lol re: the lidocaine and statins 
That may well have been my contribution. If you can find fresh mushrooms you can clean them, slice them, and dehydrate them yourself in a low oven. It’s quite easy and they are shelf stable for a year in even a moderately airtight container. To rehydrate soak in water or stock for 30 minutes.
For which many karma points will accrue. Perhaps even momos.
? I’m too old to know what that means.
No my child, you are too young. You have many lives yet to live.
I have a warped sense of humor. Karma to which I referred is a Buddhist concept. Momos are a sort of stuffed wonton or pastry common in Southeast Asia and particularly among Tibetan Buddhists. They are a simple and elegant comfort food. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_(food) . The sauce in Tibet and Nepal is usually a soy sauce like thing. Done well they are as pretty as they are tasty. The little spiral on the top is surprisingly easy after you make a hundred or so.
Or maybe this?
Momo from Avatar The Last Airbender
I called the police non-emergency number to get some park congregants ticketed yesterday. They had pushed aside the road barriers, right past the big banner announcing City Parks are closed. Also wrote City Council asking if police could step up enforcement. I think it ruffled some feathers. 
Asheville is a magnet for antivaxxers and…I’m not shocked. I had more colorful comments but deleted them because…internet.
We have two Nepalese restaurants nearby. Most of the menu is bog standard Anglicised North Indian food but they do have Nepalese items, like momos. One has them stuffed with chicken, the other with lamb. Both come with a quite spicy tomato sauce which I’ve thought on both occasions overpowered the delicacy of the dumplings.
So do I. I’ll keep posting in that case.
That’s rather a surprise to me. I usually associate that idiocy (<- opinion) with Hollywood and other left coast communities.
Interesting. I was introduced to momos with goat and yak. Do you know how hard it is to find yak meat in the US? A major exercise. Usually I make them with lamb or goat. Tomato is not a conventional choice in high altitudes like Tibet and Nepal as I understand. The sauces I was taught tend toward spicy vinegar-based. Tibetans and Nepalese tend to be very practical however and readily adopt ingredients they like. I recall Tai Situ Rinpoche rather liked my stuffed tomato.
We’re making “something with lamb” for Passover (“something with ham” for Easter - what’s a religious holiday without food whether you observe the event or not?). Now I’m thinking lamb momos to go with the lamb burgers I was planning. What is life without whimsy?
Due to the overwhelming of people gathering on the street or near the river bank in Paris the past Sunday, the city mayor imposed a restriction of physical activities for the Parisians. From 10am - 7pm, joggers are forbidden on the streets of Paris.
I hope you have a good larder. My cousin bought food daily when he lived in Paris, especially bread. The only thing he had in abundance was wine.
