Just so I NEVER forget.....
-Gas price a mile from home was $1.
40 in ABQ, NM
-School cancelled - yes cancelled for the 2019/2020 year
-Social-distancing measures everywhere
-Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers and clerks (6ft) from each other.
-Special hours set for elderly at stores.
-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.
-Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled.
-Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings -cancelled.
-Churches are closed, only offering online services.
-No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, now no gatherings of 5 or more.
-Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home.
-Children's outdoor play parks are closed.
-We are to distance from each other.
-Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.
-Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.
-Panic buying started in early March, stores are sold out of toilet paper, disinfecting supplies, paper towels, and hand sanitizer.
-Shelves are bare of non-perishable food.
-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.
-Press conferences daily from the President and Governors.
-Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.
-Government incentives to stay home.
-Barely anyone on the roads.
-People wearing masks and gloves if they must leave their house for supplies.
-Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.
-Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.
-Millions of people all over the world are laid off or fired.
-Over 9 million people apply for unemployment benefits in the US.
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.
We have so much!
• Be thankful. Be grateful.•
Be kind to each other - love one another - support everyone.
We are all one! ❤️