April 2, 2020

Just so I never forget..... April 2, 2020

-Gas prices were $1.89, $1.69 in some places

-School is all done online in our homes 

-Self-distancing measures on the rise.

-Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (6ft) from each other.

-Limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the store doors.

-Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed.

-Parks, trails, entire cities locked up.

-Entire sports seasons cancelled. Like NBA, MLB, ALL sports! 

-Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled.

-Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled. Funerals limited to a specific number and being live streamed. 

-No masses, churches are all closed. During Easter season. 

-No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, now 10 or more, and even this is encouraged to be limited to immediate family. 

-Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home.

-Children's outdoor play parks are closed.

-We are to distance from each other. Six feet! 

-Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.

-Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.

-Panic buying sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towels, no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer.

-Shelves are bare. Hard to find beef, eggs, milk. Sending one family member to shop. 

-Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.

-Government closes the border to all non-essential travel.

-Fines are established for breaking the rules.

-Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.

-Big industries help make more ventilators, & more masks for hospitals. 

-Press conferences daily from the President and the governors. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.

-Government incentives to stay home.

-Barely anyone on the roads.

-People wearing masks and gloves outside.

-Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.

-Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.

This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.

Why, you ask, do I post this status?

One day it will show up in my memory feed, and it will be a yearly reminder that LIFE IS PRECIOUS and not to take the things we dearly love for granted.... hugs, social interaction - like the real kind verses they Zoom kind, sitting in a restaurant, or in a coffee shop with a friend or family, going to a concert, chatting it up with a neighbor. 

We truly have so much!

Be thankful. Be grateful.

Be kind to each other - love one another - support everyone. 

We are all in this together! ️ 

Seek the good! Be the good! 

Love well.