Just so we NEVER forget...

Just so I NEVER forget..... April 2, 2020

• Gas price a mile from home was $1.16
• 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.
• Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled.
• Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled.
• No masses, churches and temples are closed.
• No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, now 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 sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towel no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer.
• Shelves are bare.
• 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. 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