Today is a day like no other. I write this from a deserted office. Everyone has been told to stay home. The law took effect at midnight last night making it a misdemeanor to be going to work at any place considered non-essential. It is the most severe curtailment of the public in the country.
Luckily, the news media is considered essential. I keep a press pass on me in case I get stopped.
Seven San Francisco Bay Area counties have declared that over 6 million of their citizens have to "shelter in place." If they have a place. The homeless are excluded from this law.
We may be just a few Coronavirus cases away from a full lock down, when we will need official permission to leave the house, essentially a 24 hour curfew. Right now, we are permitted to go out for food, medicine and exercise -- as long as we go out by ourselves or stay 6 feet away from each other.
The "social distancing" does not apply to family members. Thank God. Oh, yeah. God is not considered essential. So no churches, synagogues or temples are open.
No restaurants should be open for dining in. They can cook food for deliveries or hand you food through your car window, though. No bars will be open. No smoke or vape shops. None of our famous cannabis shops. So I hear.
I'll have to wave to Mom through her front window. She sits all day always looking out. The life care facility has shut its doors to visitors. That's good. I read that the over-80 have a one in six chance of not surviving COVID-19.
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