At the beginning of the year, an unusual flu popped up in Wuhan, China. It's a respiratory infection, spreads easily, and affects older populations and infants hard. It's a new virus and because of that, fear is spreading. Personally, our family will be fine. Average people who contract it can be asymptomatic, or feel a little sick for a few days. It's been spreading steadily across all continents. A few weeks ago, the United States started in with the paranoia. Because of a quarantine fear, people have been buying up all the toilet paper (not quite sure about that one) and hand sanitizer. This is the hand soap and hand sanitizer shelves as of yesterday. Quite empty.
Since then, store shelves have been emptying every day. Nothing is wrong with supply, it keeps coming every day but people are panicky and buy everything up. Everyone has gone berserk! We use way less toilet paper since we got the Toto Washlet. If need be, we could go without toilet paper at all! It has a dryer feature although I never use it.
A few days ago, a Utah Jazz basketball player tested positive for the virus. The NBA cancelled the entire rest of the season! The church had been limiting church meetings and operating temples in China and Japan. Yesterday, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints suspended all church meetings, including sacrament meetings. We are encouraged to continue with our Come, Follow Me curriculum. Home centered-church supported. Sounds like the leaders had inspiration, can I get an AMEN!
All international travel from Europe and China has been suspended. The kids have Spring Break this week but the school district just announced that school will be closed the following week as well. We are awaiting instructions about how they are going to do online school. All gatherings in the state of Utah over 250 people have been postponed. We were going to go to S. California and hit Universal Studios over the break but it's been closed. Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm, Universal, it's all closed until April. This is blowing my mind.
We have a lot of food storage and a lot of soap and hand sanitizer and everything we could possibly need. I'm not worried. I'm tired of news stories of the fear mongering. But this is a crazy time and my kids are going to remember the Coronavirus of 2020 and how everyone was talking about it. I figured I better write about it.
Everything is going to be all right. This is going to pass and people are going to be fine. Perhaps it will show people that they could be a little more prepared. Maybe it will show them there was nothing to fear but fear itself. I'm reminded of the scripture in Doctrine & Covenants Section 38: "If ye are prepared, ye shall not fear." That is right. We pray for those that need comfort. Keep calm and carry on.
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