2020 Coronavirus Pandemic update… 🦠

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.