CQ: 12 Days Before: Last Supper

February 29, 2020 NEWSPAPER HEADLINES & GRAPH: There are 24 cases of Coronavirus in the U.S. NOTE: This may have been the last "normal" day we would experience in the year 2020, although we didn't know it at the time. We were surrounded by a dozen people in the shop's small room, then went to a restaurant where we sat down to eat with others, not thinking at all about social distancing or the Coronavirus. Although the major papers had headlines about the virus, many papers did not. The U.S. had 68 confirmed cases.

Blog: We had a nice time tonight when we drove into a nearby town to visit a friend's shop's grand opening and dined on (amazing) burgers and fries.

*NOTE: This is part of my series "Coronavirus Quarantine" about my family's (and the world's) experience with COVID-19 during the stay-at-home orders and self isolation of Spring 2020. You can read all the blogs in reverse sequence by clicking here. Blogs before April 2020 were written after the fact, but the thoughts and photos are from the publish date indicated. For reference, a graph of cases and news interest in the U.S., and newspaper headlines from each blog publish date are included in each entry.

CQ: 17 Days Before: First Crash

February 24, 2020 NEWSPAPER HEADLINES & GRAPH: There are 15 cases of Coronavirus in the U.S. NOTE: This was the first time that COVID19 really caught my interest -- and it was because of the first stock market crash of the event.  Note that the newspapers' primary headlines were NOT coronavirus-related at this point. What we didn't know was that this would be only the first of several stock market crashes over the next three weeks. The chart below shows that we were on the precipice as the market opened this morning:

Blog: The stock market is crashing due to Coronavirus today. If we close with the current loss on the Dow #djia (-933 / 3.22%) it will be the #3 point loss and #11 %age loss.

*NOTE: This is part of my series "Coronavirus Quarantine" about my family's (and the world's) experience with COVID-19 during the stay-at-home orders and self isolation of Spring 2020. You can read all the blogs in reverse sequence by clicking here. Blogs before April 2020 were written after the fact, but the thoughts and photos are from the publish date indicated. For reference, a graph of cases and news interest in the U.S., and newspaper headlines from each blog publish date are included in each entry.