Coronavirus Update #11 - Happy Easter?

The Easter Bunny making a delivery with her helper

Has it really been a week since I last blogged?

Time flies, in a pandemic - or at least it does weird things...

So... where are we now?

The US is the epicentre of the pandemic with 550,000 cases and almost 22,000 deaths - close to 2000 deaths a day right now.

Canada has over 24,000 cases with half of them in Quebec. 713 are fatal.

BC has 1445 cases with 58 deaths total deaths. There have been fewer than 50 new cases daily for the last 8 days. The number of people in hospitals and on ventilators is fairly flat.

At least in BC, it looks like we may be having some effect. But we must remain vigilante!

A local Social Distancer

It's Easter weekend and, unfortunately, there are people who are leaving their homes to have a little holiday in the vacation homes. Places like the Gulf Islands and around the Shuswap are concerned - and even angry - because  these are small towns that don't have a lot of resources if visitors bring the virus along with their RV.

Some restaurants in the Gulf Islands are refusing to serve non-residents.

Good intentions but a bit of a disaster...

Closer to home, Forbidden Spirits Distillery offered free hand sanitizer yesterday. We got there about 20 minutes after they opened and there was a huge line up of cars. As we inched our way along the road., we found some people butting in from a cross street. Some other people left their cars and walked past the lineup with their containers.

However, most people waited patiently. Unfortunately, as we neared the front, an hour an a half later,  they shut it down. At first, I thought they had run out of sanitizer but then found out it was a worse reason. There were people actually fighting over the hand sanitizer! And now the free sanitizer promotion has ended. An example of a local business trying to do something good spoiled by just a few rotten apples.

We luckily didn't have to wait when we picked up a couple crowlers at Barn Owl Brewing. They provided a much needed beer in the sunshine when we returned home.

Today is Easter and my daughter and my wife got together (virtually of course) to make Easter baskets full of goodies like homemade chocolate and peanut butter eggs, tea candles, candle holders, egg cups, a bundle of lavender, soap, and an animal toy.

SDD - Socially Distance Delivery

We split up the baskets and delivered them - in a socially distant manner - to family members.

We can't get together for Easter dinner but we can make each other's Easter just a bit better.

Happy Easter!