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Oh, good! 

How do you guys plan to pay for ponies you buy at the fair? The last time I went, everyone used the PayPal app. Is that still the preferred method of payment?

I would love to add more friends. My trainer code is 0466 5199 7914

Request sent! My ID is PinkNinjaKitty

I'm enjoying this fairy/dragon event. I've been checking every single Dratini to try to get a pretty pink shiny one; I hope, hope, hope I'll have one by the event's end. My Pokedex says that I've seen 444 Dratinis since I started playing; if the odds are 1 in 500 like they say, I'm not too far away . . .


I wish so much that I hadn't missed Dratini community day way back when. At least I actually got a shiny Clefairy yesterday! I've been looking for her for about a year.

Is anyone else sometimes confused about how much is happening? I can never keep up, ha ha. But it's nice to have things to do in the game.

I just caught a shiny Groudon!  He's green.

Oh congrats! And thanks for the advice on the event today. I was trying to find a shiny Mareep but no luck. I missed shiny Mareep and Dratini back when they had their community days and it's been a fruitless search since . . .

Omg I just hatched one! Fantastic!

Awesome!

These days I'm just casually playing. I tried to do one of the regional challenges but got salty that the app didn't count the Herdier I evolved from a Lilipup -- that would have completed the challenge and I wanted the rare candy. I think I needed to do a raid, but I didn't have the time to find one. Ah, well. I'll just walk with my ice cream cone for a while and get enough candy to evolve it.

In the area of coastal Florida where I work, there are about 13,848 current cases, and in the area I live in, there are about 8,470 current cases (I work in a different county than I live in, about forty minutes away). Florida as a whole in is in "Phase 3" of reopening, which means many businesses can open at full capacity, but are encouraged to let their employees work from home and be creative with safe ways to operate (like outdoor dining and take-out options for restaurants). I'm not sure but I believe six-foot social distancing is still enforced; I know the signs are still up everywhere. People aren't supposed to congregate in large groups, although meetings (like city meetings) can now take place. The city I work in has had problems with the big club scene in the area and trying to get bars/clubs to enforce social distancing (probably an impossible task  ). Masks are mandatory in every indoor public area, hand sanitizer is provided everywhere, along with disinfectant for carts, and businesses usually close early or at certain times to disinfect their buildings (the library, for instance, closes between 2 and 3). Every doctor's office I've been to measures your temperature before you're allowed to enter, and my sister says that her workplace (accounting) does the same. Masks are also required.

Theme parks and zoos in my city are open in limited capacities (by local law; I believe state law allows them to be fully open), but I'm not sure how I feel about places that attract so many people being open. It seems like they could be COVID hotbeds. But then, many of them are nearly all outdoors (sunshine state for the win), which is much safer than indoors. Beaches and parks are open, which I think is a positive move, since they're outdoors as well and people need to get out somewhere. In tourist season this gets a little dicey, since tourist fill up the hotels and other indoor areas and could spread COVID there, but it's a delicate balance between keeping our tourist industry alive (a huge part of the local economy) and keeping everyone safe.

There are a large amount of senior homes in my state, obviously, but so far in my area current restrictions are keeping the seniors there safe. My friend works as a nurse in two of them and gets a COVID test every two weeks for the residents' safety. Schools are open in a hybrid state -- in classes, some students are learning from home while their classmates are learning in-person. Parents decide what they feel comfortable with. The preschool the kids I nanny go to half the day is enforcing separation between classes (traditionally in small schools you'd mix kids together more often, given that you have enough teachers for the ratios), strict "stay-at-home-if-you're-sick" rules, transparency with COVID cases, and constant teacher mask-wearing, along with stricter disinfecting rules and more. When my oldest nanny kid first went to preschool several years ago, before COVID, he brought home all sorts of sicknesses at least every month and I'd catch them, too  Now that preschool teachers are disinfecting everything and enforcing stay-at-home rules, my younger nanny kid, who just started preschool in the fall, has almost never come home sick  . Same for this older brother. It's a day-and-night difference and I hope they keep COVID regulations in the future, lol.

Unfortunately my youngest charge's teacher was diagnosed Thursday or Friday with asymptomatic COVID, and every parent was informed. The class is closed for some time, obviously, and we'll watch younger kid to make sure he doesn't develop symptoms. He could easily be asymptomatic so his parents and I are being careful as well; I'm quarantining and I'll get tested in a few days. Back in the summer there were long lines and testing shortages, but currently it's an easy in-and-out procedure (and supremely uncomfortable procedure, but oh well).

Vaccines were made available first to our significant 65-and-older population, those who live or work in long-term care homes, and healthcare workers starting in December, and next (according to a draft from Florida's governor's office) essential workers and people with underlying conditions will receive it.

That's where things are where I'm from. I hope the situation keeps improving and that in the near future we'll open up fully again. Officials say half the population in the state as a whole, theoretically, will be vaccinated by early spring or late fall.