May 5th was the last time my little evening women’s bible study group of five met to eat dinner together and talk about our study. We didn’t hug or touch that night, and there was concern in the air. At the time, I didn’t know all that much about the virus itself and how we should deal with it. Was it a big deal? Sounds ridiculous to say now, right?
Around that same time, a local woman on Facebook suggested that ferry travel be closed off for the most part. It was a somewhat radical idea at that moment in time, and I remember someone lambasting her for it.
Since then, we’ve all had worlds of information come to us every single day. There is massive change every day. Monumental things have happened overnight with each morning we check the news.
Ten days ago on March 18th, I posted an interview with an investor named Bill Ackman, whose opinion was that we need to get extreme immediately to avoid spread. It all made perfect sense to me. And I’m not an extreme kind of person. I love my freedom, but not at the expense of people dying.
That same day, I posted that we should all be unified, and that I’m not at all worried about President Trump right now. Well, I still believe the former, but I was so hopeful that Trump would adopt the same philosophy that Ackman had. He didn’t. I was so hopeful that in strange times, he’d rise to the challenge. Unfortunately, he continues to say the strangest things. Downright laughable things, if we weren’t in the middle of a pandemic. I won’t get into all of that, but what I will say is that we should be on lockdown as a nation. We should have been for some time now. I’ve been thinking every morning since I heard Ackman speak that I’d wake up to a lockdown mandate. If the president’s not going to do it, all of the state governors should.
I’ve always been a hand washer. I grew up with a nurse mother who was a professional hand washer. The rule in my house since having my own children has always been to wash your hands the second you come in the door after school; all my kids’ friends know it and do it too. I never touch door knobs with my hands. I don’t touch anything in a bathroom with my hands except the toilet paper. Never have. Just hand washing, masks, and distancing won’t cut it, though, with this beast. We can’t let it cross borders.
Remember just a few weeks ago when the US map showed only a few hot spot circles on it, Seattle having the largest one?
This is what the virus looks like in the US today…
That’s because of this…
Every state should be yellow.
Going to church on Easter? Not I. “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” at home. I’ll be happy if school starts back up in September. We have no idea how many waves we’ll have of this if it continues to recirculate.
While travel on the ferries should be severely minimized, the photo of the ferry isn’t meant to imply that the ferry system should come to a halt entirely.
