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2020-03-24
"How Fear Can Spread like a Virus"
This image shows how crazy the hysteria has become, people are hoarding items for this "apocalypse" leaving store shelves empty. When they are fully restocked again, it's only a matter or hours until they completely sell out. However, not many are thinking about those in serious need of those supplies. The elderly have a higher risk of dying and need certain supplies, and families are finding it hard to find meat and other foods to feed their families because of all the hoarding. -
22 March 2020
Save Our Old
A must of old in our life, as a guide, teacher and Grand people at home. None we with out them, keep away (news resources) but must must take care of them in period of pandemic -
2020-03-18
Tweet by Brigid Delaney: Telling Your Parents to Stay Inside
"In an unsettling reversal of my teenage years, I am now yelling at my parents for going out." When, at this point, it seems as if young people are less susceptible to the virus but older people are very much at risk, young people are scolding their parents for risking their lives. (@BrigidWD) -
03/17/2020
Darlene Kimball, one of the first US fatalities of Covid-19
From The Washington Post: “Darlene Kimball, 72, was one of those who died of covid-19 after a stay at Life Care Center. The avid gardener, animal lover and grandmother of five had been living with ovarian cancer for four years when she fell in mid-February and went to Life Care Center for rehabilitation, said her daughter, Tami Kahler.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/us-coronavirus-death-toll-reaches-100/2020/03/17/f8d770c2-67a8-11ea-b313-df458622c2cc_story.html -
COVID19 Pandemic aka Coronavirus
Grandaughter shows grandfather her engagement ring through a window.
Cara Boyd showed up at her grandfathers nursing home in Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina to show him her engagement ring. However, they could not meet without a pane of glass between them. She did not want to wait for the crisis to be over before showing him. -
2020-03-17
Public Entertainment (such as Walt Disney World & sporting event stadiums) closed due to COVID 19
Public entertainment sites such as Walt Disney World (see picture) have closed due to COVID 19. Additionally, college and professional sports have cancelled or postponed games. At the beginning of the virus teams continued to play but without fans in the stadium. Now sporting events have either been cancelled or postponed including professional teams such as the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Major League Baseball (MLB). College sports have also been cancelled such as the Big East Tournament and March Madness for college basketball.