COVID-19 Lockdown Day 7

APRIL 2, 2020 – Today was an okay day. Having stayed up until after 3am I slept in a bit. Fortunately, we were not dealing with neighbor ringing doorbell. Both the ‘kids’ were gone, one to care for a horse the other to help grandparents. My agenda was simple…pretty much the same. I had one thing I HAD to do and it required me going out for the first time in a week. I was going to drop by work to use some software on my computer while watching a webinar I had subscribed to. Once I had clearance to go, I made a b-line to the office from home and I methodically entered the building avoiding touching anything I didn’t have to touch. A hand full of others were leaving after having picked up various things, we exchanged pleasantries from a distance and I kept moving. I got through my lesson, ran a quick clean of the VersaCAMM printer, which I had forgotten to do a week prior then talked briefly to one or two people, again from a distance. Made my way back out touching only ONE door and I had a t-shirt rag in my hand for that purpose. Sad when you have to think about things like that because I am generally not afraid of ‘germs’.

I made the b-line home and on my way I decided I would volunteer to ride to the farm for the afternoon feeding. I didn’t plan to get out, no need to….just along for the ride, company and a moment in the wind.

Off and on the empty time was filled doing some podcast research, dealing/debating with idiots on social media posting their desire/need to get out and take on an adventure in the back country woods off-roading. Of course, I was pretty pissed off because this is exactly why Kentucky was given a 30 day travel restriction – idiots just can’t seem to understand what QUARANTINE means!!!! I mean damn! What part of this situation is hard to understand? A friend posted this on Facebook (mainly so that when it popped up in their historical feed they would have a recollection of it), but it fits:

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

-Gas prices were $1.49, $1.39 in some places
-School cancelled – yes cancelled
-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 towel 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 governess. 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 write 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, Sunday church, Friday night family night!

We truly have so much!
Be thankful. Be grateful.
Be kind to each other – love one another – support everyone.

We are all one! ❤️ stop the division and the blaming. Seek the good! Be the good! Love well (on Zoom, or in person when we can gather together again).

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