Just so I NEVER forget….. April 2, 2020
Gas prices a mile from home were under $2
School cancelled for the rest of the school year – yes cancelled!
Self-distancing measures on the rise.
Tape on the floors at grocery stores and others to help distance shoppers (6 ft.) from each other.
Limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the store doors.
Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed.
Parks, trails, entire cities locked up.
Entire sports seasons cancelled.
Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events – cancelled.
Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings – cancelled.
No wakes or funerals
No masses, churches are closed.
No gatherings of 50 or more, then 20 or more, now 5 or more.
Don’t socialize with anyone outside of your home.
Children’s outdoor play parks are closed.
We are to distance from each other.
Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers.
Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.
Panic buying sets in and we have no toilet paper, no disinfecting supplies, no paper towel no laundry soap, no hand sanitizer.
Shelves are bare.
Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.
Government closes the border to all non-essential travel.
Fines are established for breaking the rules.
Stadiums and recreation facilities open up for the overflow of Covid-19 patients.
Press conferences daily from the President. Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.
Government incentives to stay home.
Barely anyone on the roads.
People wearing masks and gloves outside.
Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.
Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.
This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.
Why do I write this status?
One day it will show up in my memory feed and it will be a yearly reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted.
We have so much!
Be thankful.
Be grateful.
Be kind to each other.
Love one another.
Support one another.
We are all one! ❤️
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Economy
Covid-19 Bill Gates TED Talk
This TED talk from Bill Gates in 2015 predicted almost entirely what has now occurred in light of the #COVID19 virus outbreak.
Update from Bill Gates on his blog: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/What-our-leaders-can-do-now
Learning How To Learn
Learning How To Learn – Why It Has Never Been More Important!
The book “The World Is Flat” was first published back in 2005. In it, the author Tom Friedman mentioned a story about why it is so important to be able to “learn how to learn” This sentiment was important then and I would argue it is even more important today! Today, more than ever traditional heavily localized relationship-centric industries – especially high margin industries – are being commoditized and transitioned by technology. Some of this has to do with a generational shift with younger people trusting the technology in their hands more than the individual on the other end of the phone or local office. Now more than ever software as a service (SAAS) as well as other technologies such as AI-driven by the growth of data science is making what traditionally was labor-intensive or manual processes into both autonomous and fully transparent transactions.
Consider industries such as:
Banking – local and regional brick and mortar banks becoming replaced by online banks like Aspiration, Chime, Radius, Revolut, Simple, Varo, & Venmo
Insurance – local insurance brokers being replaced by sites like Policy Genius and Lemonade
Investing – local investment advisors becoming replaced by sites like Betterment, Personal Capital and Wealthfront
Real estate – local real estate brokers and agents becoming replaced by sites like Zillow and Redfin (And, here you will find the steps to get the best mortgage rate possible)
Now isn’t the time to be complacent. Instead, now more than ever, now is the time to recognize the changes occurring around you and react before you end up feeling left behind.