What Life is Like Currently

These are just a few things I don't want to forget.

• Schools are cancelled. Yes cancelled. 
• Tape on the floor at grocery stores to help people social distance 6 ft from each other.
• Limited number of people allowed in stores. Lines of people six feet apart wait outside and as people leave the store you can be allowed to enter.
• Non-essential stores and businesses are mandated closed.
• National parks are closed.
• All sports are cancelled.
• Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events - cancelled.
• Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings - cancelled.
• No masses or congregations. Churches are closed.
• April General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is closed to the public.
• No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20, and now no more than groups of ten.
• Socializing with anyone outside of your household is discouraged.
• Children's public outdoor playgrounds are closed.
• Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.
• Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.
• Panic buying sets in and stores run out of toilet paper, disinfecting supplies, paper towels, laundry soap and hand sanitizer.
• Shelves are bare. Stores are limiting purchases of one of each item per shopper. 
• Manufacturers and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, and hand sanitizer.
• Government closes the border to all non-essential travel.
• Fines are established for breaking the rules.
• Press conference daily from President Trump.
• Government incentives to stay home.
• Barely anyone on the roads.
• People wearing masks and gloves outside.
• Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.
• Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.
• 5.4 earthquake hit Utah March 18th, 2020.
• 6.5 earthquake hit Southwest Idaho March 30th, 2020. (Was felt in Utah)

All of the above was written and shared by someone else who posted it on social media but I wanted to share their words here as a reminder for future Gina that life is precious and not to take things we dearly love for granted. We have so much. Be thankful. Be grateful.