Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Making a to do list

Yeah, well, so Jim's not walking so much these days.  I do try to get out for some fresh air but it's not to a show, museum, movie, brunch, restaurant, Macy's, church, gym, park, or happy hour.  It's around the block, actually.  So now I have the opportunity to work on my space.  You know clean [cleaning lady isn't coming anymore] laundry [until I find a laundromat that's open {isn't that an 'essential' business in NYC}] ... 'and such like' to quote Miss South Carolina. 
I started today on the kitchen.  I loaded and started the dishwasher.  I cleaned my tea kettle [boiled vinegar in it] and then I went to the computer.
It's the coronavirus world and day whatever of the Coronavirus worldwide [don't know for sure because China immediately put in a gag order and has not been completely honest].  For us here in the U.S. it started on Jan. 21, 2020 with our first confirmed case, the day after South Korea's first confirmed case.  Three months later in the U.S. we're doing 15 days of a kind of shutdown [each state and municipality is different].  Got about a week left.  Then our President will decide if it's back to work or continue some kind of shutdown.
Within a week of South Korea's first case their president ordered the manufacture of test kits and they tested.  They found; locked down and isolated areas of contagion.  When someone tests positive they contact trace.  Anyone who had contact with an infected person was isolated and monitored.  They educated the public on preventative measures, such as social distancing, washing hands, avoiding groups of people and they monitored.
To do #1 Intervene fast before it's a crisis
To do #2 Test early, test often, test safely
To do # 3 Contact tracing, isolation and surveillance
To do # 4 Educate and enlist the public's help
Have we clicked off any of those on our to do list?  Mr.President!

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