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2020 Coronavirus Pandemic update… 🦠

  • Apr 8, 2020Apr 17, 2020

So I can remember when I look back. This is how things were 8 April 2020

  • Stock market tanks ~30%, impacting all savings and retirement accounts
  • 6.6 million people filed for unemployment heading to expected 10 million
  • Schools cancelled – parents and kids at home for 3 wks so far…
  • Prineshs last semester at Caltech online only & graduation canceled
  • Krishan in Brooklyn with his friends, minimal impact to his tutoring so far
  • Riki in Melbourne – not much news
  • CDC recently recommend wearing masks outdoors
  • Self-distancing measures everywhere
  • Panic buying sets in and we have empty shelves for (of all things) toiletpaper, flour, eggs, sanitizers, wipes
  • Huge lines at groceries / Costco limiting number of shoppers
  • Restaurants, bars, stores, businesses all closed
  • Parks, trails, entire cities locked up.
  • Olympics and All major sports events / seasons cancelled.
  • Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events – cancelled.
  • Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings – cancelled.
  • Church / religious services cancelled, some Repub states holding out
  • 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.
  • Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.
  • Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.
  • Some 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.
  • NY Javits center, other facilities ready for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.
  • Press conferences daily from NY Governor (good) and admin/trump (bad).
  • Chief Medical Officer Dr Fauci pushed to background on daily updates re US new cases, recoveries, and deaths.
  • Barely anyone in the street or 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.

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