the world has gone crazy! Apparently, there was this virus in December in China that jumped from a bat to a human called SARS-COV-2. They call it covid-19, or coronavirus 2019. Now it's spreading around the world and our country started closing borders for people coming from certain countries. It's been declared a pandemic so school has been canceled for next week. The kids are having an extra week of spring break, but everything is shutting down, so we can't do anything or go anywhere. Some places, like California, have issued a "shelter-in-place" order where people have been told not to leave their homes for anything but essentials for 14 days. We haven't had that here, yet, and I'm hoping we won't. This is a corona virus, which is one of the viruses that cause a cold, but this is a new strain, so that's why people are scared. Some people are dying from it too. It's being compared to the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. I don't know what I think about it. It seems so far away. Aaron and his family are coming back from Japan because of it. Hopefully it passes through quickly. I guess the goal with closing borders and telling people to stay home is to slow the spread of it.
That all said, we got word about the district closing school on Wednesday night. Today, Thursday, we went ice skating anyway because that was in our plans already. We used our POGO passes. Westley was working and Corey stayed home with Nathan. It was fun to ice skate and sort of not think about all of the chaos.
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