Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020 March
I'm sitting in our home under self quarantine after our family trip to Las Vegas for 311 day, watching our world fight what must go down in history as the worst pandemic in history, or at least in my lifetime. I have never experienced anything like this before and we are just now in the beginning. I first took note of what was going on in late January, on January 23, 2020 Wuhan and three other cities are put on lockdown . Right around this time, approximately 5 million people leave the city without being screened for the illness. Jan. 24–30: China celebrates the Lunar New Year holiday. Hundreds of millions of people are in transit around the country as they visit relatives. Jan. 24: China extends the lockdown to cover 36 million people and starts to rapidly build a new hospital in Wuhan. This building would only take the Chinese government 10 days. From this point, very strict measures continue to be implemented around the country fo...