Covid Weekend #1

Social distancing. It has a much nicer ring to it than "isolating". I mean, I'm sure they're different but contextually, it's the same thing.

Weekend 1 surviving the social distancing to flatten the curve. It's Sunday night. My children are going crazy. They are convinced that at least one of them have the virus and both of them are convinced that there is nothing in the house to eat and that we will run out of toilet paper and also soup.

Why soup? Because that was what was on the menu prior to us learning that we would be home for another week. Mind you, we have tons of food. The fridge is full, the pantry is full, the cupboards are reasonably full, the freezers are full. But they must have soup and there mind is set on the soup and we only bought one can of soup for each of us and so now we are going to die because we don't have a cupboard full of soup.

Tomorrow will begin the first day of extended Spring break and the first day of me working from home.

I decided that I will probably blog each day as a way of tracking my own sanity and as a way of remembering what this looked like when we have survived it.

The government declared a state of emergency on Friday. They canceled interest rates on federally held student loans (this created havoc in my husband/son's job). They have lowered interest rates on other loans so that people can afford to get loans to help sustain them during any type of shut down.

LES and Black Hills Energy have suspended shut offs. An LPS parent group is organizing a food drive with delivery to families in need. LPS is going to be providing 300 sack lunches at 6 locations for lunches and breakfasts each day. Many places are offering free meals, free delivery. Charter is offering free internet to families with kids k-12 or college. It feels good to live in America. Even in times of trial, community comes together to provide for each other.