Someone suggested that we encourage our children to keep journals during this time since it's a time that school children will learn about one day in history. My kids aren't journal keepers so I thought I would write about it instead.
Here's something I've seen posted on Facebook, that people are using to pop up in their memories and remind us of what life was like right now. I'm going to share it here:
Gas prices at a record low (between $.78-1.04/litre).
Self-distancing measures on a rise.
Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers 2m (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 are closed.
Schools are all closed.
No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, now 5 or more.
Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home.
We are to distance from each other.
Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.
Shortage of respirators 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, no flour, no sugar, baked beans, canned goods, frozen produce...
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, calls Canadians home and makes it mandatory to self isolate for 14 days.
Fines are established for breaking the rules.
Ford sets fines for those price-gauging others.
Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.
Press conferences daily from both Prime Minister Trudeau, the premiers and health ministers
Government incentives to stay home.
Barely anyone in the street or on the roads.
People wearing masks and gloves outside (though it's driving me insane that here in Langley some people are still going to the grocery store as entire families).
Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.
Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.
1,000,000 applications for Employment Insurance as people go without work.
They say it started in Wuhan, China at a seafood market. Hundreds of thousands affected, dead, dying, critically ill.
Many recovered.
This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.
I plan on blogging this a bit more later. Here are some pictures from the day David and I escaped the house.
And went for a walk along the beach. It was lovely.
Then I socially distanced myself from my family. I miss them.
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