Quarantine - Day 9

We took a walk today along the river to the North and found some, but not a lot, of people out enjoying the sunny afternoon.  Abbie went to the grocery, which was well stocked (except for toilet paper).  Our neighborhood coffee shop installed a Dutch Door and the bottom remains closed while the top half is open.  They serve you coffee with gloved hands, and life carries on. 

Today was another fairly busy day.  Ella is doing a regular schedule of school activities from home.  Today she did knitting, math, an art lesson delivered via Skype from Nana, and gym class (our river walk). Abbie is officially off for Spring Break.  Laura and I received good initial response from our clients on our Online Learning page, which is still slowly evolving.  We have no firm word yet on whether our effort to provide content online will be counted as full billable sessions as we have proposed, but we shall see.  Only a few other providers have content up, and we are hoping to help guide the discussion with others as this gets worked out with CPS. 

I am hopeful that a relief bill gets passed.  Although the idea of a $500Bn slush fund controlled by the Treasury Secretary and the president in which no one gets to see where the money went for six whole months seems like a grotesquely bad idea.  I begrudgingly admire the brazenness of how it was proposed that no workers would get their $1,200 checks unless the slush fund was agreed to.  Trump seems itching to get workers back working, but at this point that seems like it would only increase the body count.  I am not sending my kids out until I get an “all clear” from a valid source, and at the moment that is not the White House.   

There have been 415,113 cases globally with 108,294 of those recovered. There are 50,029 in the U.S with 636 dead. We have 1,285 active cases in Illinois 12 fatalities.