March 31st, 2020
A Recap of COVID-19 up to this point.
I think the COVID-19 Virus became real to me on Feb 25th. On that day my sister Laura sent me a txt
asking if we (my 89-year-old mother and I) had enough food if I had to shelter
in place for a month. I shrugged it off,
but it got me thinking. On Thursday the
27th I noticed Amazon didn’t have Purell, so I ordered from them a big supply
of TP, Paper Towels, Kleenex, Napkins, rubber gloves and Laundry Sanitizer to
be delivered the following Monday. I
came up with a list of stuff I needed and another food if I had to take care of
my mom if she got sick for a month.
On Friday the 28th, I saw that Amazon was out of
FaceMasks. I have a pack of 100 I use if
I get sick around my mom and another 20 N95 Masks I bought because I was
cleaning the basement. I also have a
full face respirator mask (P100) for the same reason. But masks go fast, so I thought of a cheap
way to make decent ones from the disposable chair pads I use with my mom. They are basically the same design as face
masks, so I went back on Amazon and bought several hundred stretchy strings
used for kids to make masks and a hope punch and a big supply of those
pads. Again, this was on Friday the 28th
of February.
Saturday February 29th, I got up early and went to the
Market. As far as I could tell, nobody
was doing disaster buying but me. They
were out of Purell, but not anything else.
I bought a shopping cart of staples, put in the car and went back in and
got another cart of frozen foods (Veggies and Meats). It was an icky feeling.
Sunday March 1st, the hording began. I was one day ahead. By Sunday night they had pictures on the news
of paper products being gone off shelves.
A month later people still have to wait in lines for TP and hand sanitizer.
Funny note, From July 4th to the 8th (2019)
my mom was in the Hospital and came out with some heart meds. My sister Laura asked how she could help on
the day mom was released, and I gave her a grocery list inkling hand sanitizer
asking for several bottles. She got
everything including 4 huge 32oz bottles of Hand Sanitizer (Aloe) that were on
clearance. The bottles were so unwieldy,
I stuck them in the basement. Now they
are like gold, been using them a month, gave one to our church and still have
plenty for a few months. Thanks Laura.
Today the 31st
I’m at my condo. My
mom is doing well. I’ll talk about the humidifier
later, but she is fine and she is with Mary; who hangs with mom from 9am to 5pm
on Tuesday and Thursday and does her bath and bedding and such; Ruthie does the
same on Saturday. I try and get out and
do stuff why they are there, but doing the Lock-Down for the Virus, I can
really only go to my Storage Units or my Condo.
I didn’t pack today or clean.
Really just hung after I got here around 11am and I will leave around
2pm to go home. The condo is looking
vacant and the next step is cleaning out the garage, moving the furniture and
then getting the last of the stuff out in boxes. Another Day.
Well I’ll try and keep these more often.
Charles
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