03.24.2020 Deep in COVID-10 Pandempic and a week after the EarthQuake

Wow.

The title really says it all for this one.
I know its been a while since i've been here, and i'm sorry to you Blogger for that.  Life has brought me here and then scared me away for many reasons.

But i am here just to document how i'm feeling right now, so later, on a brighter day i can come back and read it. I want to apprecaite things at all times, be greatful for our health and what we have every day.

Last weekend, a little over a week and a half ago, the United States declared a national emergency and so did Utah for the whole state. That means school was down for a 2 week soft closure to help stop the spread of the COVID-19.  Everything has shut down that is not essential to life. No mass gatherings, no concerts, no bar's, no zoo or aquarium, no dine-in at restuarants, everything except take-out and grocery stores. 

Utah is reated #1 in panic buying, so all the stores were struggling to keep up and nobody, i mean nobody had toilet paper. For some odd reason everyone bought mass amounts of toilet paper. Ridiculous really and sad for those people who actually need it.

1 week later it eased up a bit at the stores, but more closures, more cases coming in positive by the day.  The whole point of this self-isolation is to help stop the rapid spread of this crazy COVID-19. I can't talk foreeryone, but most poeple i know are taking it seriously and staying in as much as possible, we all need to do our part to protect those in our lives who are at the most risk from this virus.

The stores are stocking back up, but its still difficult to find toilet paper.
Schools shut down until May 1st, or futher notice, my prediction is they will be out until summer, but we will see what happens. Which that makes me work at home every day now.
It has its own struggles, it sounds nice to be at home all the time to work, but its really difficult to focus when i have two kids constnatly coming back for things and asking questions.  On top of that im supposed to be home schooling Rivers.  So we made a deal that after I work we have Homework and school time later in the day, we are starting that today and I will upate later how its working out.

The uncertainty is at the highest i've ever felt it. The uncertainty of what will happen next and how this will all pan out. Hosptials are running critically low on supplies and we are not even close to the peak # of cases in my opinion, we will see in a few days or a week how that looks.

As of last week on the 15th there was 7 cases, and just over a week later we are now at 285.  It was out there spreading already, so we should see a spike soon and all those precautions from last week and this week should start paying off. I just feel for the hospitals.

Last week we also had a 5.7 Earth Quake at about 7:09 AM in the morning.  I've never experieced that kind of panic in my life. I was out of bed so fast to get Rivers out of bed and safe.  We were up since them with 20-30 aftershocks in the first few hours. And a week later still feeling aftershocks. Talk about a unsettling feeling along with the anxienty of uncertainty COVID-19 is bringinng.