April 25, 2020 NEWSPAPER HEADLINES & GRAPH: There are 4,300 cases of Coronavirus in the U.S. Blog: Even Sesame Street is now in on the COVID-19 preparation. No doubt weeks too late, CNN had Big Bird, the Count, and Elmo on TV this morning to help kids through the crisis. *NOTE: This is part of my […]
March 28, 2020 NEWSPAPER HEADLINES & GRAPH: There are 121,500 cases of Coronavirus in the U.S. Blog: And… it’s finally reached us in Central PA. Counties have been added daily to the list of Pennsylvania stay-at-home orders for the last 10 days. Today, it came here to Centre County. We are now prohibited from driving anywhere except […]
March 16, 2020 NEWSPAPER HEADLINES & GRAPH: There are 4,300 cases of Coronavirus in the U.S. NOTE: This was the big crash, but it wasn’t the last. My “two-week” work-at-home policy instituted was extended to at least 6 weeks (as of this writing). The Penn State closure for “three weeks” mentioned below would later be […]
March 9, 2020 NEWSPAPER HEADLINES & GRAPH: There are 514 cases of Coronavirus in the U.S. Blog: Today’s stock market crash is quite unusual. The plunge of over 2,000 points was the 2nd-biggest percentage drop since *1987* (#1 was the slightly-worse October 2008 crash). *NOTE: This is part of my series “Coronavirus Quarantine” about my family’s (and the […]
MARCH 8, 2020 NEWSPAPER HEADLINES & GRAPH: There are 450 cases of Coronavirus in the U.S. Blog: I stopped at Wal-Mart on the way home. Confirmed that, as the media has been saying, you can’t buy dust masks anymore. They put signs out to remind people they don’t protect against Coronavirus, but obviously people didn’t listen. *NOTE: […]
February 29, 2020 NEWSPAPER HEADLINES & GRAPH: There are 24 cases of Coronavirus in the U.S. NOTE: This may have been the last “normal” day we would experience in the year 2020, although we didn’t know it at the time. We were surrounded by a dozen people in the shop’s small room, then went to a restaurant […]
February 24, 2020 NEWSPAPER HEADLINES & GRAPH: There are 15 cases of Coronavirus in the U.S. NOTE: This was the first time that COVID19 really caught my interest — and it was because of the first stock market crash of the event. Note that the newspapers’ primary headlines were NOT coronavirus-related at this point. What we didn’t […]
Dec. 31, 2019: 72 Days Before the U.S. Coronavirus Quarantine NOTE: Was this severe flu I had the Coronavirus? USA Today said on March 23, it’s plausible, but more research is needed. On April 11, the L.A. times suggested that COVID-19 was likely in California in December, under the guise of “an unusual flu season.” […]