In 2020 there was this pandemic called the corona virus. It started in Wuhan China at a live food market when a bat defecated on food and someone ate it. It started spreading person to person and by the time they knew it. China had a pandemic on their hand. Well fast forward a few weeks and someone brought it back to the US. With people showing no symptoms for two weeks. It was incredibility easy for it to be spread before someone even knew they had it. It eventually started spreading like wildfire in big city’s. Before you knew it, most people were ordered to stay home. K-12 schools started online school. Big universities started online only classes with no face to face meetings and only “Essential” Businesses were allowed to stay open. That is where we are all today. Today I have left my house about four times in two months. At the time of writing this short story to be able to be looked back on, College graduations have been canceled/ postponed. Same with high-school graduations. It has been incredibility hard not to have a set schedule day by day sometimes its a blessing, sometimes its not. Not seeing friends every other day has been really hard. My daily schedule has been going as followed.
- Wake up at noon,
- Do some random stuff through the day to pass the time, video-games, working on cars etc.
- Then come around 2am its usually homework time.
- 5am is bed time then repeat day after day.
Stay at home orders have been in place for around a month and a half now. They have slowed the spread of the virus but unfortunately with some people being so hard headed not staying home. The stay at home order is going to be lifted before the virus is 95% gone. So far 2020 has been a year I will never forget, and its not even half way over yet. At this rate, fall 2020 classes will likely be online only. This “Pandemic” wont be done until 2021 or it might become a regular thing, it is currently to early to tell.
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