How are things there? Any precautions being taken?
We've been social distancing from social media and the news so I'm not on as much as before.
All our facilities, pools (14 of them), tennis courts, pickelball courts and doggie run are all closed down. All concerts, shows and rehearsals sceduled for March, April and May are either cancelled or postponed. No rehearsals for the two bands I play in. As far as we know, one resident of the community has died of COVID-19. Needless to say this has set off a firestorm and a panic among some residents. We are finishing week 3 of "stay at home." DeSantis has the state in a "stay at home" executive until 4/30. Our main restaurant is doing take out only. They pared down the menu. It has been very successful. We've used it three times so far. They make the best reuben sandwich. Their burgers are really good too. We also have local restaurants are doing take out and delivery.
Went out grocery shopping this morning. Much better in terms of goods as to three weeks ago. They even had paper towels and toilet paper today.
So we do our thing here. I get my 4 mile + bike ride in every morning. I get about an hour of practice in on my horn almost every day. My wife monitors 24 websites so she is busy with that, especially the school system website.
Our family has been affected too. Our oldest son and second son and their families live in CT. The oldest has been layoff from his job as a sales manager at a car dealership in New York. He is non-essentisl. He's filed for unemployment in NY. His wife is a kindergarten teacher in CT. Her pay continues but she works all day getting lessons plans to go viral for her class plus they have both boys home getting work via the internet.
Our second son works from home since the start of this. His hours have been cut in half. His company, out of Norwalk, is a marketing/ research firm that is small. Former UConn women's guard Dixon works with my son. His wife is an RN at Danbury Hospital - one of the CT hot spots. The wife and I have been making face masks for her and some of her colleagues. The hospital ran out. Told the staff to wash them and re-use them. I cut the patterns and the wife sews them together. We also used vacuum cleaner bags with good HEPA filter ratings to cut out individual filters. We've shipped out 24 masks and 6 dozen filters last Monday. More to go.
Our youngest is a Petty Officer 2nd Class in the Navy. A submariner, he is stationed in Guam. He works on a sub tender. They have been out on deployment with the 7th fleet since before the pandemic broke. They were in Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea. They returned to Guam last week, resupplied the ship and have left for the sea again. OPSEC doesn't allow me to say much more. I do know he has been tested and is clean as is everyone else on the ship.
Sorry this was a little long. A lot going on with the family and its difficult to be here in Florida and not be able to do too much for them. Thank God for Facetime as we talk the two oldest at least twice a week.
Stay safe out there Boneyarders!!!
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