Monday of Holy Week, Self-Isolation Day #24
Please continue to pray for my husband's mother D. on a ventilator in ICU with confirmed COVID-19. We very much appreciate it, even though we are choosing not to give detailed, blow-by-blow health updates in this public forum.Monday means a fresh selection for Morning Basket Time! A new art painting to study, new copywork sentences by George Washington, two new poems to repeat daily, new saints, new Baltimore Catechism Q-and-As, and new animals to read about.
Monday also (always) means struggling to transition back to school routine, resistance, struggles, and big time grumpies (from young and old alike).
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| Two detailed trucks drawn by Thomas (4) |
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| The daily wandering violinists |
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| Fresh history books |
We have the emblem against plagues printed as a picture on our front door, but now it is available as a handsome wooden plaque only for the cost of shipping: see ABC Catholic.
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| Emblem against plagues |
Today's creative ways to battle anxiety were: skimming the pool, watering shrubs manually (standing there with a hose for a mighty long time, finding every random plant that might like some water), and spraying pollen off the bricks.
Bonus Reading for Posterity:
- Fascinating tidbits I heard on the news tonight . . . In Lombardy, Italy (hardest hit area), which has been shut down for longer than us, 60 people showed up for a blood drive: 40 of the 60 tested positive for COVID-19, yet all of them were asymptomatic. Iceland has tested 5% of its population for COVID-19, more than any other country and in contrast to the U.S., which has tested a tiny fraction of 1% of its population: Apparently about 50% of those who tested positive were asymptomatic. Why these kind of numbers matter is that if the disease is much more transmissible than we think, if a hugely higher percentage of the world's population has caught it than we thought, then the death rate plummets.
- My home state: Social distancing may be working: Researchers cut projected COVID-19 death toll in NC
- An Advantaged Disease, Indeed
We are starting to flatten here statewide in Washington, but we're still being told to shelter-in-place until the beginning of May and schools are closed for the rest of the year. (All instruction is now online, which is harder for my kid because of the autism/ADHD/22q issues.)
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