Finally it’s Saturday. it’s been a long week. Lori made it California, against my better judgement. Jag and the team beat Vail Christian who has owned them for years and will play again today 2 hours west of us in the Championship game. Ty was in heaven at the mountain with hundreds of snowboarders and even won a pair of $400 googles, while I picked up some more supplies, traded for a new shotgun and started on the garage.
Today Ty will head back to the Burton Open today, Jag will head 130 miles west again for basketball and I’m going with Marty to James’s house to eat pheasant, smoke cigars and hang out later today after I clean the garage and hopefully get a good portion of the house or at least my room done too. I need to go get some more vitamins and gas up both vehicles.
We have one little bump weather wise Sunday night with a little snow but then we’re headed to 60 degree plus weather all next week. It’s been a long time coming and I’m looking forward to it. Lori is of course in Sacramento where it’s in the 80’s. She’s back Tuesday am around 9.
Here’s some highlights on the virus as of yesterday,
- Health authorities in Texas and Oregon report 12 new coronavirus cases in US
- WHO raises threat level to highest level available
- California has 10 cases, on verge of blowing up Statewide
- Scientists Worldwide say this is a pandemic, governments refuse so far to try to save economies
- Oregon reports three cases of unknown origin, risk of community outbreak high
- Washington State reports case of unknown origin
- US coronavirus case total hits a minimum of 63
- US issues travel advisory for Italy
- Oregon school employee tests positive, school closes for cleaning
- London’s worse case plans include turning Hyde Park into a giant morgue
- 4 cruise ship passengers on Hawaii cruise rushed to L.A. hospital Friday night
- 2 community transferred cases in California with no know origin
- Google says employee who visited Zurich office has coronavirus
- France confirms 57 cases
- Amazon tells all 789,000 employees not to travel domestically
- Italy reports 3 deaths in Lombardy; nat’l toll now 21; total cases 821
- British man becomes 6th ‘Diamond Princess’ passenger to die
- Two Japanese dogs tested positive for coronavirus
- Mulvaney says school closures, transit disruptions may happen in US
- Mexico confirms 1st virus case
- Fauci warns vaccine could take ‘two years’ to develop
- Kudlow says “no higher priority” than the “health of the American people
- Toronto confirms another case
- WHO says 20 vaccines in development
- St. Louis Fed’s Bullard pours cold water on market hopes
- Netherlands confirms 2 more
- United cuts flights to Japan
- Bill Gates warns this may be the once in a century pathogen we’ve been worried about
- Advisor to CDC says shortage of tests in US creating a “bottleneck”
- Nigeria confirms first case in sub-saharan africa
- South Korea reports more than 1,000 new cases in under 48 hours
- WHO says virus will ‘soon be in all countries’
Ok, if you read all this, you should realize things are not good. The worrisome thing is the community outbreak cases popping up. This means it’s just floating out there in the air so to speak and being transferred to people from either surfaces someone touched or just from being in close proximity to someone who was close to someone with the virus. Once this happens, it’s game on. Right now you need to question going to any place where there are lots of people, unbelievable.
Things sadly will get worse before they get better. I’ve told Lori not to go out anywhere while in California. She’s taking a 6 am flight home Tuesday morning which will avoid a crowded airport and she’ll wear gloves and a mask on the airplane. She thinks I’m overreacting which is fine. I hope I’m wrong and this thing quietly goes away but it’s my responsibility to prepare for the worst case scenario for our family. Logic and facts support preparing now as things look unstoppable.
So what can you do to protect yourself? As I said before, buy extra food and toiletries, and most of all, get healthy. Take vitamins, eat well, get sleep and wash your hands often. Keep your gas tanks full too as if quarantines come or even if things get worse and the people that deliver things like gas and food to stores where you buy it, decide to stay home, things will be gone quickly. Some places are running out of basic supplies. Costco in Hawaii is rationing toilet paper! So today, go get some things you use daily before it’s too late.
That’s it, pray for things to get better and as of today, you still have time to get ready. Lots of people are still ignoring facts and think nothing will happen to them. That’s human nature. Remember again, watch what people do, (governments, officials, people in power) rather than what they say! Funny that all our Congressmen and Senators are telling us to be calm while they are stocking up for them and their families using the excuse that IF it gets bad they need to be prepared so they can continue to make decisions on our behalf, ha.
God Bless.