Corona Thoughts - (The Corona Chronicles)

Thursday, 3/19/2020

Today the blog is more about my memories than sharing with others.  It has come to my attention that our digital world will be hard-pressed to find primary thoughts from normal people one of these days. So here it goes.

This is nearing the end of the first week of what could be called a voluntary lockdown.   Last week we were in Gatlinburg, yet preparing for the final 9 weeks of school (Sadie and Stephanie) and the last half of the spring semester for me.  We all got word late last week that schools would be shutting down in the face of the spreading Corona (Covid-19) novel virus.

Many states had begun calling for the closing of restaurants and bars, and many had begun offering take-out.  Governor Abbot made it official today with an executive order.

More and more businesses are closing, and I cannot imagine the hardship on hourly employees.

It has been reported that many of the college-age Spring Breakers are still partying like there is no tomorrow at the beaches.  Some states have ordered them home.

Stephanie went to work for about half the day to prepare work packets for her students so they can at least have the opportunity to continue their learning.

I continued to work toward achieving the goal of transitioning all of my government and history classes to go online.

The Senate passed a bill to send $1200 to each adult for relief who make over a certain threshold.  While this will be nice to get, I fear the result of the national debt.

This Corona thing is serious, but panic buying lately, in my view, is media-fueled. I fear that the political leadership is reacting to it.  Maybe I am too skeptical and misplace my worries.  Stephanie says that I am and do.

Perhaps.