Year Four, Day 326: Pandemic Times Day 75, "Stay Home

Year Four, Day 326: Pandemic Times Day 75, "Stay Home - Stay Safe" Day 62

Dear Friends:

I do not have the energy to say much today. I will be doing my vlog from my back porch after my Qi Gong and hooping. Then I will retreat to my basement cave.

I am going to make sure I use my cpap tonight. I have not been using it lately. Sometimes when my allergies are flaring up, the cpap drives my crazy - since my sinuses are clogged and the idea behind the cpap is to breathe in and out through your nose.

I just got a text alert. There are now 65 people who have tested positive at a fruit plant here in Vancouver, WA. So Clark County is stalled in Phase I.
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/05/coronavirus-outbreak-now-totals-65-employees-at-vancouver-fruit-processor.html

There are 99,459 deaths from covid19 in our country this Memorial Day.
https://ncov2019.live/data

I imagine we will hit 100,000 in the next few days.

The NY Times listed names in their Sunday edition.

"Simone Landon, assistant editor of the Graphics desk, wanted to represent the number in a way that conveyed both the vastness and the variety of lives lost.

'Putting 100,000 dots or stick figures on a page “doesn’t really tell you very much about who these people were, the lives that they lived, what it means for us as a country,” Ms. Landon said. So, she came up with the idea of compiling obituaries and death notices of Covid-19 victims from newspapers large and small across the country, and culling vivid passages from them."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/23/reader-center/coronavirus-new-york-times-front-page.html

I have not lost a family member to the virus, but I visit the Yellow Hearts to Remember FB page daily to read their stories and pray for them. 💛
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-52589050/coronavirus-grieving-together-with-a-yellow-heart?SThisFB

On that note, I wish you a lovely, peaceful evening. Talk to you tomorrow!

Love,

Zita

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