PrettyTiny Film Company Pic A Week *2020*! (The END!!)

[Alliecat]

shopping time slots reserved exclusively for elderly people were reintroduced,... I wouldn't have been allowed to enter shops between 9-11AM...

Well, at least your shops have decent hours for elderly shoppers.  SMH at all the shops that think that 7-8 a.m. is a reasonable time to ex?pect an elderly person to drag out for shopping.  I'm sure not all of them are morning people?

Victor looks very relaxed in control of the remote. Hopefully he doesn't get too excited; wouldn't want his tail knocking over the mug of tea.

We have had many spills in the living room, alas... but I don't recall Victor being responsible for any of them.

Your little pullips are SO cute! Seeing yours makes me really like little pullips.

Thank you  Minis rule!

Yes, the "definitive" stage version of "Cats".  I thought it would be entertaining to compare the two, since I'd heard there was a lot of hate for the new one.  So I watched both.  Then I read some of the bad reviews on Amazon and kind of laughed...  most were unable to articulate why they hated it.  I have to say I liked it more than I thought I would based on what I'd heard, and on the short clip I saw comparing bits of the same songs from each version.  The list of things I didn't like was considerably shorter than the list of things I did, & was mostly about the music not sounding as grand & the singers were definitely not as good.  So yeah, I thought it was OK.  >shrugs<

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This week's pic comes with a long and very angryworried rant.
TL/DR version:  One of my best friends has COVID.  After a week with no letup in symptoms, he e-mailed to let me know what was going on.  He said he sometimes wishes he could go to sleep & not wake up so he didn't have to wake up to still having it.  He's toughing it out alone at home, as of a couple of days ago.  He's been to the ER once and they gave him a ton of meds.  He's prone to sinus messes, not in the best of shape, or particularly active.  In other words, part of that great big huge chunk of the population of average size in average health.  He is too far away for me to do much to help. He's been really sick, and given how fast this thing can go downhill, I'm sending almost-daily nagging "how are you now?" messages.  People think they're on the mend and then -- they're not.
The rant?  The reason he is sick... is that a co-worker, who developed symptoms along with his wife, did not isolate, did not take any precautions, and did not even tell anyone.  "Bill" has now singlehandedly directly infected at least 10 people and shut down an already previously-struggling small business.  The wife is a dental receptionist.  Who knows how many people she infected.
It's probably a matter of time till we all end up having someone we care about getting this.  God forbid it's us as well.  The thing that makes my blood boil is the wilful ignorance and selfishness of so many people.  We have a vocal minority (I hope minority) on the island who are all screeching about global government conspiracies, Nazis, thenewsisfake, thenumbersarefake, thevirusisfake, and ihaverightsyoucantmakemewearamask.  They're cheering on all the defiers-of-regulations & protesters.  They post every lameass bogus "alternative" news story, every ridiculous conspiracy article, etc. etc.  It's easy to pretend something awful is fake till YOU get hit with it.  Because we've been very, very lucky here, although with all the people running back & forth to the mainland it's probably a matter of time till we get it here.  Some of these a$$***** will s*** themselves if they actually have to deal with someone they care about getting really sick.  
Yes, some of it is innocently spread because people don't know they've been ex-posed and actually were trying to be careful.  But lots of people are dying because someone else was stupid and selfish.  My friend better not end up being one of them.

/end rant.  I'm gonna stop here because it raised my blood pressure too close to bedtime and this isn't really the place for it.  Sorry.  And yeah, that really was the short version.
Just... be careful, you guys, OK?

The crew here is waiting for dispatches from my shipmate, and hoping for good news.