Corona Virus aka Co-vid19

This week has been wild. Almost two months ago a virus broke out in China. It killed thousands in a short amount of time, because of the densely packed population. Corona presents as a fever, cough and respiratory distress so older folks are extremely as risk. They have been calling this the “boomer virus” because it is only killing older folks and sparing children at this point. 

However because of international travel the virus quickly spread over the world. Over the last couple months I grabbed a few extra items from the grocery store to prepare a little and up my pantry stock. At the beginning of winter EVERY YEAR I prepare my “barf bucket”. That bucket is full of all types of cleaners, sanitizers, Gatorade, and things of that nature. Because barf hits at the worst time and you can’t always make it to the store. So I had plenty of cleaning products on hand. 

Yesterday (3/12/20) 

*The governor of Utah declared a state of emergency. 

*The Prophet cancelled church and other meetings. Including people coming to the conference center for general conference next month. 

*Disneyland closed its doors for two weeks. 

* The president closed international travel and declared a Pandemic on our nation. 

* colleges and school districts closed or put their teachings online. 

* And they are asking anyone that can work from home to please do so. 

Needless to say PEOPLE ARE FREAKED. Toilet paper and water bottles disappeared off the shelves two weeks ago but now because of the announcements yesterday people are panic buying even more. The announcements came out while I was at preschool. I had planned to go to the grocery store after school anyways but when I arrived there was a line OUT THE DOOR to check out. No carts available. People were exhausted and grumpy waiting over 2 hours to check out. It felt and looked like the worst Black Friday I had ever seen. I quickly walked out of the store and went home. Today Madison had a minimal day at school and the preschool field trip was cancelled so we are just having a chill day at home. We have enough food for two weeks. We will run out of some snack items I’m sure but we will make it work. It’s a great chance to take inventory of what we have. Not waste food and reset for future food storage. 

I’m not worried about getting sick. I’m more worried about being stuck at home for 2 weeks or more not being allowed to go out. 

We survived SARS, swine flu, Y2K, 9/11... we got this!

I’m also interested to see how many babies are born in 9 months.