August 2, 2020
Island living… island schedule… the fact that this post is on time is quite an achievement.
Another incredible achievement was today’s return of those two SpaceX astronauts who spent 2 months on the ISS, and who splashed down safely back to earth this morning.
This pandemic sort of has us all on “island time”… certainly, it felt like March had about 79 days in it, and I’m sure that more than once, we all woke up wondering what day it was. Whatever, “island time”.
I wrote about those astronauts (among other things) the day they blasted off, May 30th… I just went back and read what I wrote, and it’s pretty good – if you didn’t read it the first time around, here’s a convenient link:
https://kemeny.ca/2020/05/30/day-75-may-30-2020/
But what’s interesting… as per “island time”… it feels like I wrote that 6 months ago. So much has happened since.
And one of the things that’s happened is the slow and steady increase in daily new cases in B.C… back on May 30th, that whole week was just single-digit increases every day.
We have data up to Friday, and those last three days… the last W T F were… +39, +29, +50. WTF indeed.
Let’s try get back to earth… safely, like those astronauts. As rough as the ride may have been… and from 27,600 km/h on the ISS, down to 26 km/h when they hit the water on splashdown… as bumpy as the ride may have been, they made it.
It takes thousands of hours of training for them, and many others, to achieve that… and a lot of it was listening to instructions and following them.
Here’s 10 seconds of training that’ll help get us all to a safe splashdown; socially distance and wear a mask. It’s not rocket science.
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