Day 38

April 18, 2020

Mousetraps and shrimp tails. That's what I have found on two separate occasions in our driveway. Maren says it's raccoons raiding garbage cans. It certainly is weird. There have been more wild animals spotted in areas usually uninhabited by boats, goats, etc since the stay-at-home orders. In Nara, Japan, sika deer wandered through city streets and subway stations. Raccoons were spotted on the empty beach in San Felipe, Panama. And turkeys have made a strong showing in Oakland, California. 

 
The world is a different place in many ways. Just what it will look like once the pandemic has ended is another question entirely and one many of us are pondering. As medical experts continue to try and create a vaccine the world continues to stay inside. 

The new cases and deaths are still many in number and only slight relief is happening around the globe. It is still early to tell if these decreases (in Italy and most of Europe number of new cases is down) are a trend for a flattening of the curve. In Asia the numbers saw a resurgence and that simply tells us the virus is being fought by each country on an individual basis with their own government resources and health care systems and thus their own results. Success in the progress in controlling the virus.  There were still more than 82,000 new cases world wide. In America alone 4,500 people died on Thursday from the virus.
Hold fast to hope and love.  The future is coming and there's nothing we can do about it. Let's hope it's brighter than yesterday.