Day 104

Today is Tuesday June 23, 2020 and day 104 into this journey that we are all on. This tenuous ride. This quarantine trip. This passage throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic has us all feeling uncertain. The current times may have us on edge, fearful of catching a virus that gives some people zero symptoms and expediently takes the lives of others. No one should be judge, blames or faulted by the way they react in these unprecedented times. How could we know how to act and navigate our lives when something so unknown, so sudden and mysteriously deadly is thrust into our world. We are all hopefully doing our best to stay safe and stay rational. The truth is some cannot. Some are afraid and become irrational. Others are selfish and reacting in a way that only profits them. Many are suffering from loss of income and fear losing their business or their mortgage or both.  There is no handbook on how to live during a pandemic. 

Everyday we see or hear about people who are trying to get through this with the least amount of physical, mental and emotional damage to themselves, their families and their livelihoods. In the U.S. many states are struggling during a reopening phase as spikes in several cities has resulted in some of the highest new case totals yet. In places like prisons, factories, food manufacturing plants and even nursing homes, the number of cases seems to come in waves. In the Navajo nation thousands have become ill. A big problem there is the lack of medical care and impoverished living conditions like no running water or cell service making the situation dire. All over the world the struggle continues. The best hope is for a vaccine in the early part of 2021, but until then it will be a real struggle to keep this infectious disease under wraps.

The European Union  is considering a ban on travel from the U.S. once they reopen their borders. 

The United States continues to lead all nations with total cases, deaths and new cases.  The idea is scary to think this lifestyle could exist until some time into 2021, but the experts say and numbers show that just may be the path we are on.  I saw my friends Peter, Kalpana and their daughter Ilakshi today. We sat on an outside patio and shared some time with them. They only time they removed their masks was to eat or drink. I think it was because we sat closer than six feet and they are protecting their three year old.  I feel for them having to bring up a young one under these restrictions and conditions. I heard baseball is coming back for a very short 60 game season. I do not know the details, but heard a start date was July 24.

Good news.