The number of worldwide Coronavirus cases hit one million today. Almost a quarter of those cases are in the USA (I believe the number was around 240,000). Of those cases, 90,000 something were in New York State (Tennessee currently has around 3,100 cases). It's nuts that those are the numbers we are seeing.
This afternoon the governor of Tennessee issued a shelter-in-place order a couple of hours after the mayor of Chattanooga made this same decision for the city. Almost all parks and trails are closed. We watched the Signal Mountain Town Hall meeting early this week and they said they had to close our local trail because people from as far away as Atlanta and Nashville were overwhelming the trails, which makes social distancing while hiking next to impossible. It stinks that strangers have ruined that for our community.
While we feel somewhat isolated from what is going on (which is the point of the social distancing), it is all feeling a lot more real with these orders. Also, many of our friends are experiencing layoffs. The economy is in the toilet. Not sure what this will all look like at the end, but continuing to pray for those directly affected and those working jobs that put them right in the middle of it every day.
Gas is currently $1.51 within 5 miles of where we live. That is the cheapest in decades. Not that we need gas to go anywhere right now...
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