Truthfully, I'd forgotten about my blog. That is until I shared it with my new team members at work who were curious about my CSC experience back in 2017. After pulling the blog up I remembered I had posted a bit after CSC. However. my last post has been over a year ago - and was almost a year to the date when the world began to dramatically change.
Early in 2020 a new virus began spreading around the globe. It's a coronavirus and was aptly named Covid-19. Governments began taking precautionary measures in January and February, but it wasn't until March that things became really serious.
In Kansas City the entire city went into quarantine on March 24th. This meant all non-essential businesses closed and remained closed until May 14th. Steve and I began quarantining on March 15th. My last outing was to have lunch with the Tribe at Spokes on March 14th. No one could have imagined that this was the beginning of much greater changes.
The entire country went into lock down for several weeks. However, we opened up too quickly and too few people are taking this seriously and we are still in the middle of an epidemic that keeps growing.
We are now five months (or more, depending upon how you are counting) into this virus and Steve and I have still barely left the house. Essentially, I do a week's worth of grocery shopping on Mondays and go pick up carry-out for dinner on Wednesdays and Saturdays. I work from home. Church has been meeting online since mid-March. We've had a few socially distanced gatherings with 1-2 people. This means we sit about 8-feet or more apart from each other and it is BYOE (Bring Your Own Everything).
It is almost time for schools to start up (they all went online in the Spring) and no one can agree on the best way to do this. Some are going in-person, some all online and some are doing a hybrid of the two. I know many teachers and parents are terrified and confused.
Professional and collegiate sports were cancelled or have been put on abbreviated schedules. No international travel is allowed. Many governments have put in mandatory mask orders. Over 5 million people in the world have been knowingly affect and over 160,000 Americans have died. We can't shake hands. We can't hug.
We all keep eagerly awaiting for things to "get back to normal." However, I honestly don't know if what was normal will ever be normal, again. Winter will be here soon and the expectation is that things will continue to get worse.
None of this has even mentioned the incompetence of our government leadership - headed up by President Trump (who is a horrid man). The election is about 90 days away and I pray we will have a new president in January. However, half the country seems to think he's doing an okay job...and, even if he loses the election there is no guarantee he will accept the results.
All around, we are in a very ugly condition right now.
