Pandemic Update April 19

Here is the update on the COVID-19 pandemic.

There is starting to be discussion about opening the economy in a slow phased approach. In Utah they are targeting the end of April/beginning of May. Although, if that timing will work and what exactly will open is up for debate. As noted below, case counts have continued to climb, however, as a whole the spread has been significantly slowed by social distancing efforts.

As far as us, there have not been a lot of happenings. I continue to work from home. Friday nights are pizza and a movie night. We did Toy Story 4 a few days ago and Up the week before that.

I made another Sam's club trip (Caleb is below helping carry in the bananas).

One day I came downstairs and found that Lydia had put together this sign, which sums up how she feels about COVID-19. 

My work has been doing daily quizzes about the partners and managers to stay connected and I won and we got $15 for a family dinner. We went and got food at Arby's and then drove to Walmart (and Target) to surprise the kids and get a little plastic swimming pool for outside. It is hard to see, but Walmart is now limiting the number of people that can be in the store at one time, so they had tape and carts set up for when they needed people to line up.

We have done quite a few game nights over video and that has been so fun. We did Code Names and Consensus with my family. Then we have done Dungeon and Dragons, Risk and Geoguessr with Shantel's family. Last night we played Secret Hitler with the Wards, Perkins and Rossels. It has been super fun.

That is all for the update this week.