Cases are rising and things are getting worse. Ty was home with a cold while the hospital has a few new cases, two in ICU. Trying to find out if they were the care givers of the earlier patient. Today I’m sure it’ll get out as it’s hard to hide guys walking around in hazmat suits. Luckily Lori is off today.
Through my research it looks like this thing can be spread just from people breathing. I can send anyone the study from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy from the University of Minnesota or you can take my word for it. Point is, people that are asymptomatic meaning they don’t show symptoms, can infect others (you!) from just normal breathing. This explains why groups of people are getting it at conferences and meetings. I couldn’t figure out how large numbers of people at the same meeting were catching this. Now it makes sense. So again, social distancing, meaning avoiding large crowds is the key. And yes, face masks do help!
Soon local officials will pick up on this and cancel all large gatherings. Many are doing so already. The NBA, NHL and other pro sports leagues are starting to keep out fans. We had numerous colleges go to on-line learning yesterday from Harvard to Middlebury and others. I expect the kids school to get cancelled by next week or two at most as well as most in Denver too. Projections say hospitals will get creamed by the end of the month.
New York deployed the National Guard around New Rochelle and set up a mile wide containment zone. This is due to 70 people at a conference all getting it from one man. Just what I was talking about above. Hard to believe soldiers would be used to keep people in place, wow. Hope they prepared. It’s like some bad movie.
Again, you still (hard to believe) have time to prepare. Apparently lots of people think this is all going to go away on its own or some miracle cure will show up next week. I wouldn’t bank on it. When I shop these days I go early. I was in Whole Foods at 8:05 yesterday morning and was one of only a handful of customers. Crazy times. Today I’ll go for a couple bags of dog food.
Sorry to turn the blog into a daily report on the pandemic but hopefully it helps some of you. Now onto the boys.
It was a normal day with Ty at home and Jag at school. Both boys are moving slowly as I’m trying to get them ready for school. Lori is at the gym and I’m going around 9 am. We’re putting aggressive supply chain management in place in Italy. Ty’s girlfriend Zoe is stuck in Israel as they shut down all international travel. Hope she can get home in a month. If it were my kid, I would have had her come home over a month ago, or not let her go in the first place. There I go drifting back into the mess. Guess it’s time to go. Be safe and God Bless.