I always thought if I was living in truly historic times, I would keep a journal. So here we are.
We heard in late December, early January of a novel virus. We watched as people in China died and tourists were affected. And before long it was here. At the end of February it was sweeping its way around Washington state. The stores were crazy that weekend as we all tried to stock up. Things were bad when some lady told me to “Fuck off” when I said excuse me in the grocery store. By the middle of the next week the first cases had hit Colorado and by the weekend we were terrified to hold caucus. The following week, we made the painful decision to cancel our lobby day. My trip to New Orleans was cancelled. We started to plan and figure out how to do our assembly virtually. We closed the office and transitioned to working at home, thankful for the the technology. We began to rethink our jobs and our interactions with others and I bought a ton of food. Spring break is over on Monday and E will be engaging in distance learning.
No one knows what will happen next but I am going to try to chronicle it on here.