Valentine's Day 2020

It's Valentines Day and there are over 1300 deaths in China. This is what China is telling us, anyway. People are beginning to talk about how it's "probably 10 times worse than what they are telling us." They say that China is a very proud country and do not want to admit anything negative. Rumors on the internet talk about how they tried to silence the young doctor who tried to sound the alarm about the virus in the first place. He was a 34 year old Opthamologist and he is dead now.

There are videos now of citizens who must need to be taken to the hospital. (Or maybe they are whistleblowers?) They are being forcibly removed from those sealed apartments. Then there are the spraying trucks going down the streets of Wuhan trying to kill the virus that way. The scale of it is terrifying! There are 11 million people in that one city.

The most positive scene I saw was of people helping people, getting food to the quarantined. The ladies would send their buckets down off the balcony to receive their food. My heart goes out to them.

In the meantime, life goes on as normal here in my little universe. I have little surprises for all of my boys and valentine cards picked especially for them. I surprised my husband with a new toaster. (The old toaster oven was annoying!) This is what happens to Valentine romance after you have been together for 30+ years! He made me laugh hilariously at the end of the day when he presented me with a dozen roses and a big old loaf of San Francisco Sourdough! (He admitted that this could have gone very badly!)