Guys, it’s scary out there… Keep you and your loved ones safe!

Just so I never forget….. April 4, 2020

~Gas prices in Griffin GA is $1.76

~Public school becomes online home school.

~School staff step up to the plate, literally, by preparing meals and feeding kids through it all.

~Senior class 2020 left school for Spring break not knowing it would be the last time they’d roam the halls with their classmates.

~Self-distancing measures on the rise.

~Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (6ft) from each other.

~ Plastic partitions to help keep the checkers safer.

~Limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the store doors.

~Essential businesses taking temperatures of staff and patrons at the door.

~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

~No masses, churches are closed and broadcasting live on Facebook.

~No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, now 5 or more.

~Don’t socialize with anyone outside of your home.

~Children’s outdoor play parks are closed.

~We are to distance from each other.

~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 towel 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.

~Government incentives to stay home.

~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.

Why, you ask, do I write this?

It will be a yearly reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted.

We have so much!

Be thankful. Be grateful.

Be kind to each other – love one another – support everyone.