Monday, April 20, 2020
So, Monday again in quarantine. Today is the day I have class meetings and, as before, no one showed up to my first freshman meeting. True, they are not required to, but it is a little strange to be there “by myself”. I use it as a time to make a general announcement about what happened in our staff meeting, address any issues with assignments and then have team building of some sort. Most of the students that show up to these meetings are keeping busy with school work and some sort of physical activity. I try to do something physical each day as well. Lately it has been gardening.
Saturday and Sunday I moved a pallet of pea gravel to cover some of the back half of the property. I actually ran out of gravel and will need about six more bags to finish the area I was working on, but I got a good start on it. We live on two lots and most of the second lot is garden that had been left to go to seed for years. It has pretty solid hardscaping, but so, so many weeds. At least I know that’s always an option to keep myself busy!
COVID-19 is still progressing across the US, though it seems to be slowing everywhere except Africa where it is picking up speed. In the world, we’re up to 2,435,876 confirmed cases with 167,592 deaths (Center for Systems). In the USA 749,666 people have been confirmed to have COVID and almost 4,000,000 people have been tested (out of 328.2 million, so about 1% of all people in the US have been tested). Denmark recently asked elementary school students to go back to school while maintaining social distancing protocols (Gargiulo). Some parents have refused to bring their children to school and it’s an ongoing social experiment to be sure. Here in Horton, KS, we’re out for the year, but school is still on-going virtually with varied levels of success.
NOTE: Just re-read my April 3 entry. Today we’ve more than doubled our confirmed cases. This is NOT the direction in which we want to go, people! Stay home, save lives!
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