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This is how I have survived the Corona Virus Pandemic of 2020...so far  

Day 249-still alive

randy | Nov. 18, 2020, 10:53 p.m.

Today is Nov 18th, 2020.

Keeping up with days of the week is almost impossible. The days bleed into each other. Very little changes yet the world is changing rapidly. Biden seems to have won

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Day 28-Four weeks

randy | April 8, 2020, 11:09 p.m.

Thursday, April 9th, 2020

Four straight weeks of stay-at-home! Are you freakin' kidding me?

I can't believe it has been 4 weeks since Fulton County decided to close their school d

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Day 26-Not all masks are created equal

randy | April 6, 2020, 8:38 p.m.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2020

I have learned way more about masks than I really needed. That is what happens when you use the internet to research. You either start looking for one thing and

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Day 25-Thank goodness for the workweek

randy | April 6, 2020, 12:35 p.m.

Monday, April 6th, 2020

Whew. I am glad the weekend is over. While there are lots of people who seem to have all sorts of newly acquired free time, I already worked from home most days. My

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Day 21-Three weeks

randy | April 2, 2020, 3:24 p.m.

Three weeks

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Well, yesterday wasn't funny. Today isn't either. I see we are on track for 1 Million cases and broke the 50K level for deaths. Anyone who belitt

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Day 20-Not Funny

randy | April 1, 2020, 9:40 a.m.

Tuesday, April 1st, 2020

Today is April Fool's day but no one is making jokes. I found a copy of the research paper that breaks down the probabilities of the infections, deaths, and timefr

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Day 19-A new routine

randy | March 31, 2020, 11:28 a.m.

Tuesday, March 31st, 2020

I think I have the coronavirus, if one of the symptoms is seeing everything through a yellow film. The pollen is so thick, I think they need to start reporting it

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Day 11-A new week

randy | March 23, 2020, 7:24 p.m.

Monday, March 23rd, 2020

A new week. A week of school, work and new worries. Watching the federal politicians be...politicians is very disappointing but I guess to be expected. The republi

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Day 10-Sunday

randy | March 22, 2020, 6:46 p.m.

Sunday, March 22nd, 2020

Yesterday, I made a point of staying off the computer. I felt I needed to just do...something, anything that didn't require a screen.

As a family, we made a

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Day 8-FRIDAY

randy | March 20, 2020, 9:19 a.m.

Friday

We have survived a full week in social-distancing. The warm weather is helping, but now I have to worry about Pollen and my asthma. last night, I coughed and had a hard time breathi

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Day 7-Settling In

randy | March 19, 2020, 12:09 p.m.

Settling In

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

My daughter is devastated. Her Prom is postponed indefinitely. They haven't canceled it, but most all other Spring-related school items have bee

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Day 6-100 dead

randy | March 17, 2020, 11:11 p.m.

Wednesday, March 16th, 2020

100 Dead

It is a morbid milestone: 100 dead in the U.S. alone. I woke up to 164K confirmed infected and over 6,400 deaths. We already went through 100K infect

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Day 5-Quarantine fatigue

randy | March 15, 2020, 5:50 p.m.

Tuesday, March 17th, 2020

We are already tired of each other. Tired of watching TV, tired of the rain, tired of playing the same games. Thank goodness for the home offices my wife and I set up

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Day 4-corona refugee

randy | March 15, 2020, 5:48 p.m.

Monday March 16th, 2020. Corona Refugee I coined this term to describe the state of things for those people affected by the changes the virus is causing but haven't actually gotten sick. Read More →

Day 3-A last Horrah

randy | March 15, 2020, 5:22 p.m.

Today is the last day to venture outside. We have decided to get what last groceries we need for a 14 day period and hunker down. Both kids wanted to see a couple of friends in person one last

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Day 2

randy | March 14, 2020, 6:10 p.m.

Saturday: went to bed late and still woke up to a new reality. More announcements to what is closed. The Gov't is closing off traffic to the UK. That exception lasted a minute, but I expected that.

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Corona Virus Refugee-Day One

randy | March 14, 2020, 4:55 p.m.

Friday, March 13th, 2020

Today is the first day of our “self-quarantine” or social distancing. It had really started earlier in the week but today we felt the real impact. How appropria

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