Seattle is Ground Zero for the outbreak and leading the rest of the country by
a few days. My local school district called off school for today and tomorrow
for “planning” and I don’t expect we’ll see them reopen for weeks. I sent a
letter to the super, the board, and the city council urging them to close the
schools on Monday but got zero response.
I pulled my kids out of school starting Monday and have been keeping close to
home except for one trip to the grocery store yesterday. I’ve been taking our
temps 2x/day since Friday and so far we seem clear, but there have been 2
confirmed cases on the island I live on (pop. ~25K). Everybody funnels through
the 2 grocery stores we have, so I expect the community spread that started in
the senior center is pretty far by now. :-(
The good news it that I started a new remote-only job Monday. :-)
Stay healthy out there!
Heather
On Mar 11, 2020, at 9:31 PM, order <order@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3/11/20 2:30 PM, Julian Koh (Redacted sender kohster for DMARC) wrote:
Hope everyone is doing ok.
We are about to join the crowd of schools that are taking courses online for
the spring. A conference I was going to go to in a couple weeks in Vegas
got cancelled. Work trip in April out to San Jose will likely also be
cancelled. Retirement accounts taking a beating. Whee!
Here in the land of the Polar Bear we're doing good so far. The infamous
cruise ship Westerdam is going to come dock in Juneau for a few weeks before
the start of the cruise season. Which is an open question as they're starting
to cancel cruises. Not a bad thing as we get a little tired of 1 million plus
visitors in a few months.
I've got a trip coming up at the end of March, beginning of April to go down
to Florida for the Sun & Fun fly in. We'll see.
Topped off supplies in the freezer, checked the dehydrated food supply,
checked the meds list. Think I'm set.
This isn't going to be stopped at this point, the best we can hope for is
that it's slowed down enough to not swamp the medical people.
Stay safe, be smart, take care!
rus
