March 16, 2020 

*This from my COVID Journals.

The story thus far...France going offline Spain, and Poland just went Germany not far behind. Canada just closed it's borders,...including the one with us. The States by the number's will lock down by the end of the month,...maybe sooner. We're three weeks behind Italy.

In the Emerald City the schools were shut possibly till fall. Bars cafe's shops closing. Basically the City is going offline. Folks bunkering up.

NYS Governor Cuomo decried that lack of Federal leadership. Said there's "...chaos" throughout the country. This as each State is making it's own rules many of which conflict with the States around them.

As for the Feds,...like #45 said, "...it will disappear like a miracle."

In a cab coming home from Hospital where I finally got my meds. We listened as Cuomo said that there will be the need to build Hospitals as the Chinese did from scratch to deal with this.

The Feds have to do this via the Army Corps of Engineers, and civil construction companies. Them guys in China put those things up in about a month. Amazing what can be done when ya life depends on it.

My cabbie said that his family in Haiti are okay. As far as he knows it's not there yet. I'll have to look that up. More folks on the streets are wearing masks now. At a glance maybe twice as many since before this past weekend.

These coming months the balance of this year will be trying.

We'll make it. We just will.

* (I recall at the time it was said as many as 250,000 Americans could perish. They also thought worldwide losses could be 3,000,000 persons. So far as of March/April 2022. It's just over 1.5 million American and 6,000,000+ in the real world. A quarter of these could have been saved if we had a rational plan and followed through with it. ) ...these last years have been a crack and whiskey binge. Hell on Hell on fucking Earth. The war in Europe is the cluster bomb speedball chaser.