COVID 19 Journal: post 2

My new normal:

1 - we play Blokus every night to kill time
- Nathan is the best - Annie plays really ugly but she usually wins too
- we usually only play 3 games a night so we don't get sick of it
- it is a game we started playing at Josh's house in Australia
- it's an easy game to pick up and easy for everyone to play - my mom doesn't need to know English to play this game


2 - I do zumba with my mom everyday.
- now it is at 2pm everyday
- we do about 30-45 mins at a time
- I search various Youtube videos on zumba. We have watched videos with chinese or vietnamese groups dancing.

3 - No going out to restaurants
- we aren't allowed (self - isolation)
- restaurants are closed (delivery and take out only)

4 - I'm not going out unless it's to get food
- the other day I went to get coffee for my dad - that was an adventure - have to be more cautious out there - On Commercial Dr on Sunday at 11am, it was so dead
- I try to avoid Superstore and Costco
- I want to try to go to local mom and pop store if possible

5 - Fresh air is only from our open windows
- I open the window in the kitchen - sometimes a small slit sometimes the whole thing

6 - Nathan is half naked playing video games all day
- sometimes he wears a shirt
- sometimes he plays till 1 or 5 in the morning

7 - 'going out' is a bad term now
- asymptomatic people are everywhere

8 - Zoom meetings every week with my cousins
- Sat night with my cousins on my dad's side - it was cool - last week we had 16 people in the chat, sometimes it was hard to hear everyone but it was fun!
- Sun night with my cousins on my mom's side - we have 'homework' every week - last week was find an old picture and say something about it - this coming week it is something you cooked

Covid 19 Journal: post 1

This COVID 19 pandemic is super scary. It is effecting everyone in the world. It is spreading like wildfire and there is no cure or vaccine for it. We are doing our part in trying to slow the spread. 

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.

This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.

Timeline

March 20, 2020 - Vancouver declares a state of emergency

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/these-are-the-metro-vancouver-cities-that-have-declared-states-of-emergency-1.4861896

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

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/b-c-declared-a-state-of-emergency-amid-spread-of-covid-19-what-does-that-mean-1.4860269

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)