Day8:

Private hospitals have begun offering their facilities and staff to the public sector to relieve the strain on the hospitals.  A huge new hospital due to open in the next months has opened early and will be used exclusively for CoV patients.  This is getting SURREALISTIC folks. 

We are having problems controlling MIL.  She refuses to stay put.  GP is up in arms because he thinks she doesn't take what he says seriously as she only listens to people who have careers she understands: nurses, doctors, postal workers...  Her greatest font of information is a neighbor who is a FIREMAN.  He is a church-going do-gooder who spends in inordinate amount of time visiting his elderly neighbors.  To a cynic like myself I have to wonder what's in it for him, but evidently he is just a very nice guy.  Huh.  MIL has a head for numbers that is astonishing and in fact ran a very successful shop for years and has invested well and followed those investments herself since the beginning.  But she is limited in her understanding of things that are not concrete.  On top of that, the biggest dream for people of her generation was to have a child go into a career that would put them in high standing within their town, as life begins and ends in their communities.  She would have loved GP to have become pharmacist or to work in a bank.  (My son the pharmacist...)  Instead he LEFT TOWN and began to work in a field completely alien to her.  High Tech.  And then, shame of shame, he left the country and began to work in CONCEPTS:  international marketing, sales, contracts.  She doesn't understand it so she can't explain it so she can't brag about it.  Therefore it has no value.  Poor GP.  So she doesn't listen to his dire threats of the situation at hand but if the fireman tells her it's true!  So we are thinking of resorting to calling Carmine, said fireman, and telling him what to tell MIL.  As he can no longer visit, he yells to her across a courtyard/parking area the separates their respective balconies.  Carmine, you are our only hope!  xxoo me