Today was a beautiful spring day, the sun high in the sky, flowers blooming, the trees budding a sure sign that their leaves are close behind. Saw the first sailboat of the year out on the Hudson...if it were not for the Coronavirus Pandemic our little town of #Nyack would have been hopping, all the restaurant sidewalk tables filled with patrons, a long line at the Starbucks waiting to place their orders, and perhaps hundreds of children playing in the park...none of that was going on, no tables out on the sidewalks, no lines at the Starbucks, and Memorial Park devoid of almost any human presence at all. The good news...that means people are taking the Sheltering in Place serious here in town. The bad news...some folks (mostly 20 somethings) just don't seem to care, see this as one big vacation, some even thinking it's all a joke on those of us taking it so seriously.
For the second day in a row now our death toll here in America was over 1,000, though at our current pace (fingers crossed) we may tamp this all down and have far fewer than the predicted 100,000-250,000 deaths that the models are calling for. At this point, no predictions because this virus seems very unpredictable, and just went you think it is under control it pops its head up somewhere else and is twice as destructive. Heard on CNN today that the virus has mutated 7 or 8 times and that is not good for any of us.
Not in a writing mood right now, so going to close.
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