stampeed - corona virus - hand sanitizer

There is a world wide struggle currently over the corona virus 19.  I write this more for posterity's sake.  I have a few thoughts about what's going on locally and generally.  P advised me to buy a months worth of food 2 weeks ago.  We stocked up on paper products that we were running low on.  I tried to buy more of the things we usually eat.  It became hard to think of things to buy since we already had plenty and I usually keep the fridge not very full.  So the surplus clogged my ability to see need.  In the last 2 weeks I've tried to keep getting our usual items and ignore the surplus, but like I said, it's hard to realize what we need.  It's even harder to not eat it all up!  Oh tater tots!

Around the time I was stocking up on everything our family could use for a few weeks, others were stockpiling hand sanitizer and face masks so they could make a profit selling them online.  Then we started to hear that nobody could buy these things.  This was an artificial shortage created by greedy people trying to profit off the misfortune of others. 

So we have what we need and we're keeping to ourselves.  Church and school are canceled until further notice.  General Conference will be just the General Authorities and the Choir.  Even that seems risky to me.  But at least it is not the crowds of people all together for so long.

I'm very grateful that aunt L recently shared Netflix with us.  That will be wonderful since we'll be home and not gong to the library or other activities that usually fill our days. 

So what good are we going to do?  Homeschool, practice cursive, do more art, learn more songs etc...  This is unprecedented and I hope our health care system does not get overwhelmed. 

I don't like it that people are panicking.  Social media allows people to be filmed and the contagion of fear to shared and amplified.  Was panic necessary to motivate people to social distance.  I see on social media a lot of people trying to convince others to take this seriously and limit their contact to slow the spread of the sickness.  The spread is inevitable but if it is not slowed our health care system will be overwhelmed.  And I see other people that don't believe the reports and are more worried about the impact on business. 

So we'll do what we can to slow the spread, and accept that it will spread.