February 28 Corona is taking over, the Virus not the
beer.
February 29 The market is down 2500 points, a
daughter in Florida on Spring Break, another in New Orleans...Mardi Gras. My son takes the subway
in New York every day to work.
March 2 Pete Buttigieg wins Iowa, or not. Went to see a novelist speak at an
overcrowded independent bookstore. She
said it feels like we are in a flashback sequence of a pandemic movie when
things were normal, and we didn’t know what was ahead.
March 3 College
kids are being recalled from abroad. My
business trip to London gets cancelled
March 4 A friend
cancels his 50th birthday party. I wash my hands until they are
chapped.
March 9 I took the
subway in New York and the Amtrak home. Someone
coughed on the train and everyone got up and left the car.
March 10 Biden’s
deficit in Michigan has turned into a 20-point surplus, how? The market is plunging.
March 11 Everything changed. The market approached
bear territory, the World Health Org classified it a Pandemic and Trump is
addressing the nation.
I’m supposed to go to the Washington Capitals
game tomorrow, but the DC government said there should not be gatherings over
1,000 people.
March 12 The headlines scream: The day
the sports world stopped
March 13 We move employees home.
March 14 One daughter comes home from New
Orleans.
March 15 My College senior texts me: “They just
cancelled graduation”
March 17 Today a new term,
“shelter in place” where New Yorkers may have to stay where they are.
March 18 They are saying months now. The
Treasury Secretary says we could be in for 20% unemployment. They want to send
everyone $1000 checks. We get our
son home from New York
March 19 OpenTable said
reservations in its top cities from Boston to Washington went to zero, as in
none, not one.
March 20 Images emerge over China and California with
clear skies. Fish in the Venice
canals. Car plants close in Detroit. Tax
Day gets moved
March 21 Once impressive companies like Airbnb,
WeWork, and Uber sound like terrible ideas.
Sharing offices, using other people’s cars and houses?
March 23-The Washington Post has a sports page, but no
sports section
March 24
March 25 On a conference call I actually saw a squirrel digging for acorns. And finding them. The Olympics are postponed
March 26-India and the UK close for 21 days. Three million people in the US file for
jobless claims
March 29 2,000 people have died
March 30 Here comes the week that matters: Will people pay their rent, their mortgages,
their employees? They build a field hospital in Central Park
April 1 One rag put it perfectly: “At least 835 people
died today, the stock market dropped almost 5 percent and it just feels like
Wednesday.”
Death toll predictions skyrocket to 100,000-240,000
April 2- We are making salary cuts. The DNC postpones the convention and Wimbledon
is cancelled
April 3 6.6 million file for unemployment. A friend’s mom dies, and we have Shiva by
Zoom
April 6 The Queen speaks to calm everyone
April 7 The UK Prime Minister goes into intensive
care. Some good news, they think the
curve is flattening
April 8 The most oft repeated phrase at our Zoom Seder is not Dayenu,
but “I can’t hear you”
April 9 Bernie Sanders drops out of the Presidential race
April 10 Economy in free-fall, cries the headline.
April 11 I'm halfway through Tiger King
April 12 Talk of "re-opening" the country emerges in earnest.
April 13 A raccoon comes up to our porch and looks in the window.
April 14 More cars on the road then there have been, people are emerging.
April 15 Out of boredom the girls dye my gray hair. I look like I'm wearing a Dracula wig. I learn, too late, that you can't just rinse it out. It needs to grow out. This could take awhile
April 16 People in Michigan march on the Capitol chanting "Set us free"
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