Well, it seems we’ve made the call. My son’s school has closed and is gearing up for online learning, my husband is/has been working from home while ill, we’ve stopped taking my middle-est daughter to school and are hoping they will let her learn online so she can graduate in the spring, my eldest tried to get time off from the pharmacy she works at but they said she could come in as usual or lose her job so she lost the job, and I am hoping like crazy that my boss keeps being supportive of my NOT going in to work. At this point, with no way to know what my husband is ill with we are either protecting others from getting Covid19 or we are protecting my very vulnerable husband from it. I did not imagine having to make a call like this until very recently. Life has gotten weird.

We’re as stocked up as I could get us. I built up our supplies of TP, pasta, rice beans, tea and other staples, froze a bunch of chicken and beef, a little bacon, got ahead on toothpaste, soap etc. we have board games, video games, rpgs, and tons of books and art supplies. I also made sure to have cat food and litter to last a while and plenty of dog food. I think we can lay low for a month or two without going crazy or suffering privation. We’ll see how it goes I guess. schools are closing, sporting events are cancelled, library programs are being cancelled, companies are telling people to work from home, hand washing instructions and videos are popping up all over and social distancing is being encouraged widely.

i don’t think we’re overreacting, we are calm and making the best calls we can on all of this. When my daughter quit her job we had doubts, we felt awful, but then we saw a video where a Doctor with 30 years experience talked about why this disease in particular has him worried. There was a situation he was involved with where 13 people were exposed to this virus and all 13 contracted it, something he has never seen before, all 13 got it and 3 ended up in the ICU, 2 are still there. If my husband doesn’t happen to already have this thing there is no way in hell I am letting him risk getting it. He has terrible asthma, just shockingly bad. We’re already doing everything we can for him outside of a hospital setting and his doctor wants us to hold the course. The doc calls daily, sometimes more than once, to check on him. We’re in limbo here and we’re making the best calls we can day by day.