Here it is the beginning of February of the year 2021 and what has life been experiencing almost a year now with this Covid-19 pandemic and with no end insight?
My youngest daughter is a school teacher and her husband also works at school in the security department. The second week of March they always gets there spring break, at this time we make the trip to Arizona to spend 10 days with them and their family. We enjoy this visit and always look forward to seeing our daughter, her family, our grandchildren and great grandchildren. We will arrived that Friday when their break is to start, to welcome her and her husband home from work, so our visit and fun can begin.
Last year when we went for this visit, she had her plans all made, our days were spent going out to dinner, having a special dinner party with our grandchildren and great grandchildren, celebrating our 67th wedding anniversary, helping with home projects that required grandpa's services, while Ann and I visited some of my favorite stores to do some fun shopping, plus going to a school play to see a great grandson and great granddaughter take to the stage for their performance and then a dinner play where an older great granddaughter had a important roll, that made her shine.
We've had a week of fun but in two days it would be time for us to head home, when we found out that the states had closed down churches, small businesses, many stores, plus schools and the list was just beginning in the name of Covid-19.
While I was driving home that Monday morning I was wondering "What would I find at home and how would it effect my life and the ones I love and care about"?
It wasn't long until things begin to happen with the do's and don'ts, by being told we would have to "be safe" by staying home and when we went out to doctors, markets, some stores etc. we would have to wear a mask, first that was just wearing a mask, but now they are saying that wearing two masks is better, we need to have social distance of six feet between others and the floors are marked in checkout lanes to where you stand, aisle are marked with arrows on which way you are to walk, restaurants are closed except for drive thru, schools have been closed with teachers doing teaching to students by computers, people have lost their jobs, unemployment is sky high, you were told not to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas with anyone outside your own home and list goes on and on and on.
The count of people getting this virus is so high with the death number unbelievable. In our country alone, the USA as of the first of February, more than 450,000 people have died from this coronavirus in nearly one year, after our nation first confirmed case. More Americans have died of this virus than died in all of WW11. The rest of the world is experiencing this pandemic with large numbers also.
We do have some good news, because of President Trump and his efforts and support to get a vaccine for this pandemic to the American people, in lest than a year we now have a vaccine for us and the world, we do have to sign up and make arrangements to get it, it does take two shots, but it will save lives and give us our lives back, so we can enjoy our families, go to church and our temples even have a party or a movie, our children can go back to school, we can interact with our family and friends and people can go back to work and my Sweetheart and I can make our trip back to Arizona to see our daughter, her husband, sweet grandchildren and great grandchildren.
It will take sometime for us to see that life can go on, we will have some changes, but need not to worry or fear, we are strong with our beliefs and life is good, so enjoy life with the love of family and love ones and the friends we have missed, so be happy, do a dance and enjoy the sunshine, lets make some plans to have some FUN.... and if you forget what this Pandemic was like and what the restriction were, I'm sure will find it in a History book in the near future.
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