From the New York Times:
“As the number of known cases reached into the hundreds, then the thousands, then the hundreds of thousands, life all over the country changed in sudden, profound ways. College graduations and high school musicals were canceled. Nail salons, department stores and barber shops have been forced to close. Baseball’s Opening Day, college basketball’s Final Four and concert tours were called off. Some states have told people arriving from elsewhere to quarantine themselves. Others have warned that the pause on public life will likely last weeks more, and that the worst of the pandemic is still to come.
In a matter of days, millions of Americans have been asked to do what might have been unthinkable only a month ago: Don’t go to work, don’t go to school, don’t leave the house at all, unless you have to.
The directives to keep people at home, which began in California in mid-March, have quickly swept the nation.”
Total global cases: <1 million
Total U.S. cases: 243,729 with total deaths at 6,164 (more than 92,000 are from New York)
Total confirmed cases in Utah: 1,074
Meanwhile, we left at 7 am today to get toilet paper, rice and feminine sanitary supplies. We found sanitary supplies at the first place we stopped (Walmart), rice and one pack of toilet paper at the second place we stopped (Winco – we paid more than a dollar a roll) and got to Costco at 8:40. We waited in line for one hour while they let seniors shop and then they let us in. They had gotten 1600 units of toilet paper. It was the first time in over a month that I had seen toilet paper at Costco! It was $18 for 30 rolls which was so much better than we have been paying lately. The only things we could not find today were paper towels, dishwasher soap and orange chicken at Trader Joe’s. (they said the amount being shipped hasn’t kept up with demand.)
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