Day One

A neighbourhood walk today, beautiful weather, the sun came up this morning.

We have decided to take things more seriously regarding the coronavirus and we have decided to limit our exposure to other people as much as possible over the next 10 days. This is not because we are already sick, but we believe we should avoid contact with others, within reason, to ensure that we reduce our chances of contracting this thing.

We will call this day one of our own personal protection plan.

The main change in our behaviour will be to stop going to bars and restaurants until the 27th March, although we will review that decision in a weeks time. We will not change the way we shop for perishable items, milk, eggs etc, mainly as we live in a rural setting and we can limit our contact with people at the local store. We will not change our daily walking habits, because the health benefits of walking far outweigh any slight chance of catching the virus from passers by.

We will stay home more, do some gardening, play some games, drink some booze, Netflix and chill.

Canada is closing it's borders to anyone other than Canadian citizens, and for now, US Citizens. We would hope that will change in the weeks to come as we're not impressed with the US response to the pandemic, plus it is not in most US citizens financial interests to "own up" to having the virus, and because of that, things probably will get out of hand very rapidly across the border.

It is not the end of the world, the sky is not falling, but we should all do our best in reducing the rate that this virus is spreading, mainly to take the pressure off our medical facilities.