March Madness

"Trying to stay away from the media, as I have really been sucked into the vortex the past few days. Listening to enough of that Chicken Little stuff, will drive one cray-cray."

No, this is not about basketball. Seems our spring tournaments are also on the COVID -19 causality list. This is about the real March madness. How we are coping with the panic of this disease very few know anything about. This disease, which has gone through Wall Street like a bulldozer, has turned even the most sleepy grocery stores into mayhem. Why? Fear. Fear of the unknown. We keep getting information from the media that this COVID -19 is somewhere between a common cold and the bubonic plague.

Since we were gone for six weeks, we only "spot shopped" when we first got home. Yesterday, we did some "deep shopping" to re-stock on what we were totally out of. We picked Thursday, as we have found it is usually the deadest day of the week to shop. Wrong. It was a mad house. It was like the day before Thanksgiving. What were people buying? Not toilet paper. Gone. But everything else. Carts were full of stuff. All kinds of stuff. It was like, the asteroid has not struck as yet, but we can see it from here.

This is going to be a very strange spring. Basketball - gone. Hockey - gone. Soccer - gone. Baseball - delayed. Travel - forget about it. This country is not on lock down as of yet like Italy is, but it sure seems like we are headed in that direction. As goofy as March is turning out to be, what will April be like? I shutter to think.

Not even the "fireside chat" we had from the President could calm the nation's fears. This boogie man of a disease, has most folks thinking Armageddon - or worse. Washington can only play the blame game. Democrats blame the President, the President blames Congress, some of the Neocons in the Senate blame China. All this crap is someone's else's fault. And as long as we feel that way as a nation, Washington will be of little help in getting this thing fixed.

Today will be another day of social distancing (whatever that means). It will be sitting around the homestead, trying to come up with useful things to do. Trying to stay away from the media, as I have really been sucked into the vortex the past few days. Listening to enough of that Chicken Little stuff, will drive one cray-cray.

Good luck fellow Americans. Stay tuned, stay prepped, and most of all, stay brave. We will all get through this, and then maybe we can watch a good baseball game.