Much of the world has been affected at some level from a pandemic of the coronavirus dubbed COVID-19. Our family has not escaped. Thankfully, as of this writing none of has contracted the illness, yet each has been affected in some way. Many of us are under stay-at-home orders within our state. Kathy Carper is a nurse Pennsylvania and so experiences the front line of the battle. Emily is a Walmart worker and sees yet another side of the panic people have adopted due to the pandemic. Most of us have had some version of work schedule adjustment. Schools by and large have been shifted to online work, or closed for the remaining part of the school year.
Matthew and Jacob are likely among the most at risk. Matt lives north of Venice and east of Milan, Italy. That part of the world has been a significant hotspot for a number of weeks. The clampdown there is more severe than what those of us in the U.S. face. Jacob and Kanneisha are expecting their first child, Lucy. She is due in early May. They live in Bellingham, WA. That’s the same city where there was such devastation at a nursing home with a number of illnesses and death among staff and residents. They will have to go to the hospital for Lucy’s arrival, putting them at increased risk of infection.
It’s anyone’s guess how long this will go on, if there will be some future wave, or if the medical industry will figure out a vaccine against it. In either case we have all learned the meaning of a new phrase, social distancing.
Matthew and Jacob are likely among the most at risk. Matt lives north of Venice and east of Milan, Italy. That part of the world has been a significant hotspot for a number of weeks. The clampdown there is more severe than what those of us in the U.S. face. Jacob and Kanneisha are expecting their first child, Lucy. She is due in early May. They live in Bellingham, WA. That’s the same city where there was such devastation at a nursing home with a number of illnesses and death among staff and residents. They will have to go to the hospital for Lucy’s arrival, putting them at increased risk of infection.
It’s anyone’s guess how long this will go on, if there will be some future wave, or if the medical industry will figure out a vaccine against it. In either case we have all learned the meaning of a new phrase, social distancing.
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