Well not exactly empty but the traffic this morning looked like traffic on a holiday. I’m at the Institute to see Dr Gold my oncologist. The hospital is pretty empty maybe a third to half the amount of the normal crowd on a normal Wednesday.

Everything and everyone has a strange feel or strange cast about them. Things seem slightly off at best. But the hospital itself is running along just fine. Right now I am waiting for my “numbers” to come back so I can be OK’ed for another three weeks of treatment. Then I am gone to catch a ferry.

But here I am in the maw of it all and might as well report. Cris our CSABC had a great comment today about this outbreak being a great opportunity for us. I haven’t heard that idea before. I’m still chewing on that. I think what she is saying is that it is a time for service. It is a time to be helpful to those that need it rather than going into the bunker to wait things out.

This has merit of course and makes me think of the situations of outbreaks of other diseases in other times. People in general are ignorant or uncertain about how to proceed so they generally withdraw for safety sake. But there have always been those that have gotten out beyond that to be helpful. The battle between self preservation and calling has been around for a while.

I was talking with my research nurse David. He was expressing the idea that it is an opportunity to study people and how they are reacting. He talks about the panic buying.

Well, time to go. Things are getting wrapped up for my release.

Strange uncertainty loves, Felipé.