Saturday, March 14, 2020
Today my significant other, Donald, and I were supposed to be going to a contest in which our seven-year-old, Mika, was participating. On Thursday, the competition was canceled due to coronavirus contamination concern. Mika and her team worked most of the school year on their project and now they will not be able to show it off. The older teams are automatically being advanced to the state tournament in early April, but there is not a state competition for the younger group. The state event is sure to be cancelled also, because it is scheduled three weeks from now, and it will be months before this country starts sliding down the backside of the infection curve.
My older daughter, Megan, asked me this morning if I was ready to have Mika home with me for the rest of the school year. I am, and I expect that is what will happen. I would like to think the school district will actually get their ducks in a row and have a working online option available two weeks from now, but I do not think it is possible with thousands of school districts across the country trying to accomplish the same task I told Mika yesterday that next week, which is the unexpected week off, she would be required by me to read for thirty minutes and do a math worksheet each day.
We had the first death attributed to COVID-19 reported in Colorado, in my county, last night. It was an 80-year-old woman with underlying health conditions, and today we have three presumed cases, including her. I know it is simply semantics, but I wonder if she died from COVID-19 or did she die from complications from COVID-19? Either way she is dead, and it is a tragedy, but I assume if I caught COVID-19, most likely it would turn into pneumonia and the pneumonia might kill me. I could be completely wrong, and that is why I have a morbid curiosity about her death. Quit telling me to wash my hands and tell me how it will kill me.
I am not thinking there is a conspiracy happening, but I also wonder, “Did she die from her underlying health conditions and simply also had COVID-19?” I wonder this because I had pneumonia two years ago that put me in the hospital. When Megan took me to the urgent care center because I was too sick to take myself, I was told I tested positive for influenza. I told the doctor, in no uncertain terms, that I did not care if I had the flu, I was there because I was sure I had pneumonia.
I ended up in the hospital several days to treat the pneumonia. When I heard about the woman last night, I wondered if I had died two years ago, would they have claimed my death was from influenza? My pneumonia may very well have been caused by the flu even though I did not have any other flu symptoms., but I may also have gotten pneumonia and then been exposed to the influenza virus. Either way, I would have been dead, so it really does not matter if the chicken or the egg came first.
Donald went to the grocery store this morning and I wished him luck. He told me there were quite a few empty shelves when he returned. We mix canned green beans in our dogs’ food in the evening and there was one case left for him to buy. I think there are 24 cans in a case so the dogs can eat fancy, French-cut green beans for the next twelve days because all the regular-cut green beans were gone. There was plenty of milk, which was good for me, but they were out of chicken and eggs. I would rather have steak than chicken, so I do not mind at all. I am guessing a lot of people plan to cook at home.
My piece of advice to you is to embrace the adventure. Mika and I will likely record some extra videos for her YouTube channel next week. I bought some paper craft books for her to fold, and they might be fun tasks for videos. We plan to use this unexpected vacation to find out how fun they can be. I am finished with the coronavirus hysteria and embracing the coronavirus adventure.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.
Today my significant other, Donald, and I were supposed to be going to a contest in which our seven-year-old, Mika, was participating. On Thursday, the competition was canceled due to coronavirus contamination concern. Mika and her team worked most of the school year on their project and now they will not be able to show it off. The older teams are automatically being advanced to the state tournament in early April, but there is not a state competition for the younger group. The state event is sure to be cancelled also, because it is scheduled three weeks from now, and it will be months before this country starts sliding down the backside of the infection curve.
My older daughter, Megan, asked me this morning if I was ready to have Mika home with me for the rest of the school year. I am, and I expect that is what will happen. I would like to think the school district will actually get their ducks in a row and have a working online option available two weeks from now, but I do not think it is possible with thousands of school districts across the country trying to accomplish the same task I told Mika yesterday that next week, which is the unexpected week off, she would be required by me to read for thirty minutes and do a math worksheet each day.
We had the first death attributed to COVID-19 reported in Colorado, in my county, last night. It was an 80-year-old woman with underlying health conditions, and today we have three presumed cases, including her. I know it is simply semantics, but I wonder if she died from COVID-19 or did she die from complications from COVID-19? Either way she is dead, and it is a tragedy, but I assume if I caught COVID-19, most likely it would turn into pneumonia and the pneumonia might kill me. I could be completely wrong, and that is why I have a morbid curiosity about her death. Quit telling me to wash my hands and tell me how it will kill me.
I am not thinking there is a conspiracy happening, but I also wonder, “Did she die from her underlying health conditions and simply also had COVID-19?” I wonder this because I had pneumonia two years ago that put me in the hospital. When Megan took me to the urgent care center because I was too sick to take myself, I was told I tested positive for influenza. I told the doctor, in no uncertain terms, that I did not care if I had the flu, I was there because I was sure I had pneumonia.
I ended up in the hospital several days to treat the pneumonia. When I heard about the woman last night, I wondered if I had died two years ago, would they have claimed my death was from influenza? My pneumonia may very well have been caused by the flu even though I did not have any other flu symptoms., but I may also have gotten pneumonia and then been exposed to the influenza virus. Either way, I would have been dead, so it really does not matter if the chicken or the egg came first.
Donald went to the grocery store this morning and I wished him luck. He told me there were quite a few empty shelves when he returned. We mix canned green beans in our dogs’ food in the evening and there was one case left for him to buy. I think there are 24 cans in a case so the dogs can eat fancy, French-cut green beans for the next twelve days because all the regular-cut green beans were gone. There was plenty of milk, which was good for me, but they were out of chicken and eggs. I would rather have steak than chicken, so I do not mind at all. I am guessing a lot of people plan to cook at home.
My piece of advice to you is to embrace the adventure. Mika and I will likely record some extra videos for her YouTube channel next week. I bought some paper craft books for her to fold, and they might be fun tasks for videos. We plan to use this unexpected vacation to find out how fun they can be. I am finished with the coronavirus hysteria and embracing the coronavirus adventure.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.