Just so I never forget...April 2, 2020.
- Gas prices in Heath, are $1.24/gallon.
- School cancelled - yes, cancelled.
- Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (6 ft.) from each other.
- Limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the store doors.
- Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed.
- Parks, trails, entire cities locked up.
- Entire sports seasons cancelled.
- Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled.
- Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled.
- No funerals.
- Only online Lake Pointe services as all churches are closed.
- No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, now 10 or more.
- Don't socialize with anyone outside of your home.
- Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.
- Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.
- Panic buying sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towels, 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.
- Fines are established for breaking the rules.
- Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of COVID-19 patients.
- Press conferences daily from the President and the governors. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.
- Barely anyone 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.
This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.
