COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]
Yep. Friday the 13th my company had half the employees work remote to stress test the system, with the other half expected to work remote the following Monday. Over the weekend, as schools were closing, the decision had changed to have everyone go remote. Terrible times.
If one goes back four years ago to the near-beginning of this thread, its not too difficult to pick up on the varied feelings of dread, unease, frankly terror of the pending medical catastrophe we, as Americans, and billions more were collectively and individually, going to have to find some sort of solace and contentment confronted with this planet's first pandemic since "Spanish Flu" late WWI, 1918-21 virus and a century ago, culturally, politically and economically, our world wasnt nearly as interconnected, intertwined or "globalized" as its become. Looking back, it's amazing the NFL even decided to have a 2020 regular-season although it did give individual players on NFL teams the option of "opting-out" for the season, and more then a few, Pro-Bowl caliber starters did, like Dont'a Hightower of the New England Patriots. I'm not entirely sure Hightower ever came back and played again the following season in 2021.
It was a very frightening, somewhat scary time because even if you fell into the young/middle-age category "demographic" that could fight off infection and maybe survive supposedly, the amount of hell, torment those Covid-infected patients went through in 2020 before vaccines became available was horrific. Even if you did everything right: washed your hands religiously, practiced "social distancing", stayed locked-up at home quarantined for months, their was a still a chance you could get it just by wrong person, relative who didnt know they had it or were asymptomatic, unfortunately gave it to you and you don't know it you're going to live or not.
Especially when you watched cable news outlets announce the weekly death tolls were 25-30,000 people at one point during the summer of 2020.