This is our life now:
- Gas prices at a record low (about 90 cents a 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 - Limited number of people inside stores, therefore lineups outside the store doors.
- Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed
- Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled.
- Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled.
- No masses, churches are 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.
- 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.
- fines for those price-gauging others.
- Press conferences daily from both Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier of BC.
- Barely anyone in the street or on the roads.
- People wearing masks and gloves outside.
- 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
- Limited number of people inside stores, therefore lineups outside the store doors
- Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed
- Entire sports seasons cancelled
- Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled
- Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled
- No masses, churches are 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
- 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
- fines for those price-gauging others
- Press conferences daily from both Prime Minister Trudeau and Premier of BC
- Barely anyone in the street or on the roads
- People wearing masks and gloves outside
- 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.
Many recovered.
This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.
Timeline
March 20, 2020 - Vancouver declares a state of emergency
March 20 - Parks and playgrounds closed (https://vancouver.ca/news-calendar/park-board-closes-playgrounds-reminds-community-to-adhere-to-social-distancing.aspx)
March 19, 2020 - BC declares a state of emergency
March 17 - Schools all close (https://bc.ctvnews.ca/all-b-c-public-schools-will-be-closed-for-now-over-covid-19-concerns-1.4856680)March 12 - Entire sports seasons cancelled (https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/nhl-suspends-season-due-to-covid-19-pandemic-an-appropriate-course-of-action-1.4850356)
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