hi so just wanna kind of give an update
of what's going on in my world with the
coronavirus and what's going on with
Candy's world with the coronavirus we
both live in the United States I live in
Florida in the Tampa Bay area and candy
lives in California about I believe it's
about 45 minutes from LA but you know
we're both being affected in different
ways pretty much the same but you know
just kind of want to record what
experiences we're both going through on
different coasts of the country as you
know this is now a pandemic and has been
declared a pandemic for about a week and
a half now and ever since it has been
declared that things have been going
crazy
my things just like change rapidly every
day there's no information and new
changes new updates new countries you
know shutting down their borders is it's
pretty nice so you know just last month
I went to Guatemala and that's when you
know we just heard that China had this
virus and Wuhan and the whole city was
shut down and so at that time I wasn't
very concerned I wasn't thinking about
going to Asia anytime soon but I was
thinking well it's Guatemala or all the
way on the other side of the world
there's no way it'll come to you know
this side and I thought that other
travelers felt the same way I did we
didn't feel any threat there was still a
lot of people traveling at that time and
this guy next to me I mean he obviously
didn't care because he was coughing and
sneezing with this you know mouth open
not covering at all which by the way
even without a virus going around you
should always cover your mouth when
you're sneezing or coughing it's just a
general rule of thumb anyway so yeah so
that was last month I had a great time
in Guatemala I'm glad I went because no
traveling is on lockdown pretty much and
if you are traveling it's not a great
idea because you're at risk you're going
even if you're young you will pass the
virus to someone else if you're exposed
so I mean there's you know all sorts of
wrong with traveling right now
unfortunately
so candy was supposed to come visit me
in April and a couple more weeks and
we're supposed to go to the Grand Cayman
and we're just last week or a week and a
half ago we were still gonna move
forward with our plan because we didn't
think in Florida and the Caribbean it
was that bad well we were obviously
wrong um things escalated really quickly
after we discussed it and in the next
couple of days we finally decided you
know what no we should cancel our plans
it's this isn't gonna work as dangerous
hopefully we can go again but not
anytime soon
it's sad but it's the best thing to do
right now so anyway yeah just wanted to
give you an update on what it's like in
Florida this week so my company just
told everyone to work from home I'm
starting this week on Monday there's a
lot of restaurants closing in Florida in
the Tampa Bay area they just don't have
enough business so and plus one of them
are mature works which is pretty popular
here in Tampa it's like a open food hall
area so it's like a communal kind of
vibe so they had to shut it down because
now the CDC says that you have to stay
six feet away from everybody other
restaurants are only having you order a
takeout and today actually went to fresh
kitchen which is really great if you
ever come to Tampa fresh kitchen is
awesome they have whoo free healthy food
and it
is really good but they do have signs
too that say that you know post the CDC
guidelines saying that hey just you know
stay six feet away from each other which
we did I think everybody is respecting
the rules and trying to be careful let's
see my apartment
they were functioning at the beginning
of this week and then they decided to
close down all communal areas so the
pool is closed the fitness centers
closed business in our theatre room the
dog park then the very next day they
sent out an email saying that they're
closing their offices so they weren't
gonna be around for us to go into the
office and ask questions so if we have
any questions or any maintenance work we
are supposed to call them and/or email
them grocery shopping was a bit of a
challenge because people are going nuts
and just buying loads of everything okay
so this morning I'm checking out some
grocery stores I went to public sphere
II just want eggs and avocados that's
all I want because I think I have plenty
of meat for now I know you know me is
hard to find no - well it's actually
chicken because when I went to Publix
they still had some bread pasta so I
just got a couple of those are like one
loaf of bread and I got a couple boxes
of pasta no avocados a lot of the
vegetables were gone - for some reason
and no chicken no chicken at all and but
there was a lot of pork a lot of pork
and beef so I got a pack of pork I don't
really eat pork anymore but just in case
and then no eggs couldn't find the eggs
so now I'm at Walmart to see if I could
find eggs but I don't really have high
hopes
guys
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okay so success at Walmart I was able to
find chicken there's actually plenty of
chicken eggs there's lots of eggs and
avocados there's like a whole pile of
them so thank you all more for having
all that oh one thing I noticed was that
other things are out too like vegetable
oil the flour section like all the baked
goods are kind of gone I was kinda
surprised at the vegetable oh that was
gone
so I'm gonna keep my eye on that cuz I
do
use vegetable oil a lot I've been told
that is best to go in the mornings
because they get deliveries in the
mornings and I have noticed that some
stores are opening of the supermarkets
or an hour early for the elderly which
is great and they have started rationing
as well which they should have done like
a while ago so other than that what I've
been doing at home so you know been
working obviously because I have to work
from home and my free time I you know
usually take on a lot of walks I take
her out more often now just because I
need the exercise too and then I also
started working out in my apartment so
I'll just watch some you know fitness
videos with pops trigger TV muscle
teaching Kuma's some new tricks I saw
this cat video where they're reading
this bill so I thought I would like try
that new trick with kuma so what they do
so yeah oh and you know I am skyping
more with my family in Japan so they've
you know had this virus for a while now
I'm what longer than we have and so you
know we kind of knew some of the effects
from it from them they seem to be doing
fine right now my youngest sister is
still going to work my mom is still
going to work she works at a daycare and
my dad is retired so he's staying at
home but you know they need to be
careful because they are elderly
and they need to stay away from anybody
that's carrying it but so far they're
doing fine and it's just been nice to
you know catch up every week and talk to
them alright so that's it from my side
of hora de let's see what caddies doing
so I am in LA County this is probably
the longest have been apart from each
other for a while since you know we use
it when we're traveling you know we see
each other every other month or every
two months I want to say I started to
become a little bit worried when my
sister called me from Japan my sister
and I we have a little sister and our
family they all live in Japan and one
like a three o'clock in the morning I
get a Skype call from my sister and she
basically was like hey Japan just
ordered that all schools be shut down
and everyone's kind of a little bit of
in a panic and all the face masks are
dying do you think you can buy some face
masks for me and Mellon to Japan because
I cannot find any and um
I was able to find mascara because at
that point there wasn't really much
panic here in the u.s. so then after
that it was so pretty calm over here I
mean there was of course it was in the
news all the time but there was no
closures it was just kind of a lot of
reporting on how many cases were coming
up in different areas I think it was a
few weeks later when it finally kind of
got pretty like why it escalated so fast
here from one day everyone going about
their business to the next day after the
president had announced that he was
gonna you know shove order or stop
flights from certain countries as soon
as that news came out the
stay I decided to well actually I would
I usually go go is she shopping every
two or three days so I was like well I
might as well just go grocery shopping
now and it was pretty busy and the
shelves were starting to look a little
bare but not that bad and I wasn't going
crazy with my grocery shopping just
because I didn't think it was necessary
to stock up on so much stuff and then
the next day it was just full it just
seemed like full-on panic mode for
everyone because when I would drive
around like there were lines out the
door to get in the grocery store and
then when the weekend hit on Sunday I
was already out of meat so I was like
I'll just you know go grocery shopping
well I kind of had idea would be
difficult but I didn't realize how crazy
things were gonna get there were a
couple there was a line outside Ralph's
a line outside Trader Joe's I really
didn't feel like standing a line to go
inside the grocery store basically they
were starting a line they're only
letting I think 25 50 people in at a
time and only giving them 20 minute 20
minutes to shop there were you know
signs everywhere saying that everything
is last sale and I think they were
starting to limit how many items you
were allowed to take when I was able to
get into a grocery store yeah like all
the meat was gone I think I mean there
was like some bacon and really really
expensive like prime prime rib steaks
which I didn't want no bread no eggs
no canned food it was yeah it was pretty
empty and there was meat finally I was
able to find some meat over at sprouts
so what have we been doing daily
well I work from home so not much has
changed in regards to like the amount of
time I spend at home I have been doing a
lot more taking a lot more walks with my
dog I don't know if you can see her
she's right there
and surprisingly there's a lot of people
out and about walking around obviously I
want to say more than usual things are
starting to close down more now you know
I used you know I've been getting all
those emails and I don't know how many
emails I've gotten out like oh you know
we're you know we're aware of the virus
and we're keeping a close eye on that
blah blah blah but now I'm seeing that
you know the gym the gym that I usually
go to is closed restaurants and bars are
closed but they are still offering
takeout I don't know how long that's
gonna last
of course the post office is still open
which I'm glad because there are things
that I'm still mailing so because the
gym is closed I decided to do workouts
at home so I started that yesterday
hopefully I can continue that and I
think that's about it we decided to kind
of just record what we're experiencing
and we're planning on kind of giving a
summary every week we will still
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