By my best guess we’ll know on Monday whether or not Lori has the virus. I guess if I come down with it before then we’ll also know too. Last night was my second night on the couch, not good for sleeping. Ty and Jag stayed at friends as it was easier for me to keep them away from Mom and keep her isolated. She spent most all of the day except for about 5 minutes in our room.
At 12:30 she headed out alone to get tested. The way she tells it she pulled up and was meet by a police officer who then verified her appointment and id. Then she pulled forward in her car to a spot with a big sign that read “Stay In Your Vehicle”. So she sat there until someone finally came out. Guess they were all decked out in a hazmat suit with a helmet and googles and face shield. They swabbed her and gave her some papers and sent her on her way telling her go home and stay there until she receives her results. So now we wait. Luckily up here there are not the huge waits as in Denver.
She does have some symptoms such as a tight chest and headache but feels ok, so she says. She’s still convinced that she just has a bad cold but I told her we can’t take that chance. Again if it’s as contagious as the news says it is, I either have it now or have had it and didn’t know it. For all we know Ty could have had it too.
At Whole Foods yesterday am it was packed by 8:30. One of the employees told me they were already sold out of their days worth of some foods. Some shelves were bare. By the time I left at 9 there were 3 times the people as when I arrived. And this is in Frisco. I practiced my best social distancing skills pretending everyone smelled, ha.
I have a call with my two partners that I founded the company with today. We’re looking at 25% pay cuts across the board and even letting a couple of people go. In hard times hard choices need to be made otherwise everything could go down. You just don’t know what’s going to happen. One thing is people do drink in good times and bad but getting it to them is the trick. I’m installing a “touchless” way of selling and delivering wine to customers asap. We’ll sell to stores via on line offerings and help direct them customers that will want our wine delivered to their homes. Lots to do but I think I have it figured out.
I’m headed to the gym. They disinfected and cleaned the entire place last night so this morning all should be clean. I’m deciding when I have to stop going and start working out from home but for this morning anyhow, I can go workout. Lori says she’s going, not.
That’s it. First time in our lives the President has declared a National Emergency. This gives the govt. unbelievable powers to do basically whatever they want. I think the last time this happened was like World War 2, if then at all. Dems are still playing politics with Sleepy Joe saying the first point of his plan to stop the virus is to stop racism, WHAT? This guy has Alzheimer’s for sure. When you’ve lived with it as we did with dad it’s pretty easy to identify. I think Pelosi and the House did agree with the administration on a new bill that provides free testing and paid leave which the Pres said he was authorizing a week ago anyhow.
That’s it, time to beat anyone else to the gym. Be safe, be smart and don’t overreact and you’ll hopefully be ok. Do pray though, trust me as that always helps and there is a God! So may God Bless you and all of us. Now go make some pancakes!