Corona Virus Diary: This is just the beginning

Today is officially the 3rd day of Corona Virus lockdown and things are constantly changing by the minute therefore I will need to catch you up on everything that has happened so far.


 Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Well hello there... this is gonna be a probably semi-long series but it's alright. I'm living in history and things like this don't come around very often so here I go.

Here is some background of what I know- The Corona Virus first started in a port in mainland China. According to many news, the virus was originally from a bat (yes, the flying night creature in caves) and someone in China ate it and that was how it was transmitted. There was also some news that when the person realized got sick (Corona Virus has flu, fever, cold type symptoms ) they went to the doctors. It was said that the doctor realized that this was a new virus and wanted to inform, the public but then the government officials wanted to keep it silent since it could cause a panic. The news wasn't made public until 81 people caught the virus (that was the first time I saw it on the news). Unfortunately, the doctor that tried to inform the pubic had died. So far this is still only located in China.



When people first heard the news, it didn't alarm many people since the situation felt like miles away. I believe this started sometime in December of 2019** (I need to verify that). During this time, people saw the effects only on the news and eventually lead to some discrimination towards the Asian population. The discrimination only scratched the surface of the events that will follow. The spread of this unknown virus started climbing. The 81 people soon became 1,000 people and then 40,000. As soon as death began to follow, that was when things became worse. At this time it is January. Students at school sill had their events running, sports, rally, and prom and graduations were still on people's minds.

Back to the world,  the spread started going up exponentially in the month of February because now the virus is no longer isolated in China but so how to spread in other countries. The cruise wouldn't let people off the boats because they were afraid that if someone on that cruise that just came back from China, it would affect even more people. The worse part is that the symptoms of the corona Virus take effect after 14 days (2 weeks), which means that people can carry and spread the virus within that 2 weeks without even knowing they have the virus. After the cruises, people around the world were cautious of keeping everything clean. School promoted constant hand washing, staying home when you're sick, and sanitizing everything. On Friday, March 6, 2020, at noon, it was announced that we were to not hold any group assembly larger than 1,000 people. That morning, my school just had a multicultural rally and the Sadies dance was definitely canceled the next day. Moving forward a couple days Thursday, March 12, 2020, was my first swim meet of the season and now it was the last.

Friday, March 13, 2020, at 12:35 the school was the day the district announced that we will not be going to school for the next 3 weeks + 1-week spring break. Because the district issued this mandatory break, schools will not have to make it up over the summer but this results in cancellation or postponement of spring sport. (sad feeling) In hopes of things getting better, I just don't see it right now. Over the weekend, there was a great increase in food hoarding. Because school is out parents need to feed their children.

Honestly right after they announced a break from school, the situation didn't really concern me yet because we were still able to go out freely so students began making plans with their friends for activities over the one month off. Little did we know that things would change within the next couple of days. there was a public announcement to limit the number of gathering by 100 and soon changed to 10 and then to only if absolutely necessary. Oh, yea- there is also called this thing called social distancing where you basically space yourself out from others. Okay so on Monday, people were sent home to work from homes like everybody and all the businesses excluding the supermarkets are all shut down and closed. Tuesday, they called for in house lockdown and going out only for a grocery run.



Today, which is officially the 3rd day of the quarantine, there are already some arising issues. (And Costco is jam-packed with people where the line to go in is trailing out to the parking lot) Hoarding is a problem (people are stocking up on supplies and elderly are having trouble keeping up but luckily stores are now providing a window of time for the elderly people), there is a group of people in Stockton that are covered in white suites pretending to be officials to rob houses, the stock market is crashing and thousands of people were laid off. As a result, the government treasure is trying to write 2 checks to everyone so that they have money. Alrighty, I am tired of writing. There is more that I can talk about but next time. I keep you updated