Just today San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Marin, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties announced a shelter in place starting Tuesday March 17th at 12:01am. It’s ordered to stay there until April 7th. Citizens are still allowed to leave their homes to go to the store but any unnecessary travel is strongly discouraged. All restaurants are to be shut down besides take-out and delivery. Workers are advised to work from home unless they are healthcare workers, police, firemen, and utility providers. Citizens are allowed to go outside and hike as long as keeping a 6ft distance away from others. Police are now able to cite people with a misdemeanor for not complying with the shelter in place.
In my last blog post about COVID-19, I definitely didn’t think that the virus would get this extreme. With school closing for a month, bans being placed and the number of cases doubling everyday it’s becoming apparent how much of an effect this virus will have on daily life and the world economy. The whole situation doesn’t exactly feel real and considering how just one week ago everything was fine, who knows what the following weeks will come to in order to prevent the spread of corona. Despite the hilarious memes, it is still worrying to think that the United States is just a couple days behind Italy, who is on full lockdown, not allowing anyone in or out and a skyrocket of deaths. Here is a link to a timeline of all the events happening in the Bay Area along with some national announcements by ABC 7 News if you’re interested:https://abc7news.com/health/coronavirus-covid-19-update-california-cases-bay-area-san-francisco-news/5906450/
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I agree, I definitely was trying to keep a positive mindset with everything on the news. However, once they announced school was going to be closed and the shelter in place, it all became very real to me. Of course, none of us have ever had to go through this before, so it is a very new feeling. I feel trapped, but at the same time, I've been able to use all this time to my advantage. However, I know in a week or so I'm going to be driving myself crazy. All of us are used to socializing with other people, so when we are told not to for 3 weeks or longer, we don't know what to do with ourselves. For now, facetime will have to do the trick.
ReplyDeleteThis is very intresting I too thought this wasn't going to get big but once they closed schools and have a shelter in place it became real.
ReplyDeleteIts crazy how everything happened so fast, I will admit when they closed down the I was happy because I thought I would be able to get more hours at work and also hang out with friends but now that I saw that this is serious we are unable to go out and we cant do anything. It has burly been one week and I already feel that i'm going to go insane in my house for 2 or 3 weeks more I need to get out I am not the type of person that likes to stay at home everyday. After this whole virus happened I was also out I had a very busy schedule and I want it to be like that again. I just want everything to go back to normal even if that means going back to school its hard for me to say but I think I miss school I miss seeing all my friends and the fact that we might not have prom, senior picnic, grad night, and graduation makes me even more frustrated but I am hoping that all this will be controlled by the time all the senior events come up.
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