Definitely doesn't feel like running, much slower than that. I had actually thought this thread would be about someone deciding to train for a marathon... and took several posts for me to figure out what it was about.
It does depend on what county, where, being discussed in terms of flattened curves. For some of us, the worst isn't yet past. For all of us, we don't actually know if the worst is ahead of us. There is not a definitive "we've flattened the curve" that applies to the US. Hot spots keep emerging in various parts of the country. Still some whack-a-mole going on, and I suspect that this is how it will be for quite some time (the whack-a-mole, not the Stay Home). Nobody promised me anything, certainly not a return to normal, not a cure, not a treatment, not a vaccine, not a timeline. There are also no promises that stay at home orders won't come again if flareups occur.
We have been buying time. To learn more about this virus, to find treatments, to get more PPE made, to figure out how to do school, work, supply chains ... and, yes, to try to not swamp our hospitals. Who can forget stories out of Italy about first those over 80 having to be passed over for help, and then age 60+! We don't know that this won't happen here, as furloughs of healthcare workers continue and others fall to the virus. Or quit.
It seems to me that there was not any kind of "end point". Even if someone took that leap and put a date out there, the virus is in charge, not any human.
....Maybe it's my little girl issue/tape of never being able to do something "good enough'" that's playing here.
Not at all sure what you're referring to here? If it's about somehow not mastering Stay Home, well, forgive yourself. Nobody I know had any practice with that, except the periodic ice storm or blizzard, measured in days. If it's that somehow you don't feel you're getting Good Enough info or reliable enough or, etc., well, that's all of us. Every day something changes, it is the only thing we can rely upon.
If your family or friends are giving you crap for something or nothing, well, they get to demand perfection from you as soon as they practice it 100% themselves. Give yourself a break. None of this is normal and for many, far from easy. Slow to a jog. Enjoy the scenery.
