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Life in the Time of CoVid-Day 18 Lockdown: Get A Grip

April 13, 2020-Day 18 of SA Lockdown: Day 3 US Self-Isolation

US: Daily death toll has dropped; more than 560,000 CoVid casesnumber of cases slower Saturday & Sunday

Returning brings with it another question: Where to go?

Do we return home, home to our comfortable, safe haven while possibly contaminated with CoVid virus? (Not an option as refugees from NYC are there.) Do we hunker down in NYthe epicenter of CoVid-19 horror with more cases than China? Fly onto Alaska, with only 272 Covid Cases,...

Life in the Time of CoVid-Day 16 Lockdown; Day 1 Re-entry

April 11, 2020-Day 16 of SA Lockdown: Day 1 US Self-IsolationSouth Africa: CoVid-19 cases in Africa rise to over 12,700 with 2,050 recoveries & 666 associated deaths

USA: More than 500,000 confirmed CoVid cases; NYPD reported that nearly 20% of its uniformed members - 7,096 people - called in sick

Were Back!

We answered the big Should we stay or should we go? question Thursday morning by joining about 300 others outside Cape Town Stadium Thursday morning to begin evacuation. Our instructions...

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Life in the Time of CoVid-Day 14 Lockdown

April 9, 2020-Day 14 of SA Lockdown: South Africa: 1,749 CoVid cases; 13 deaths (as of 4-8); Durban Hospital Closed Indefinitely Due to CoVid-19 Outbreak China Lifts 76-Day Lockdown of Wuhan City

Cue Peter, Paul & MaryLeavin on a jet plane

As youre reading this we are probably winging our way from Cape Town to Lome (the capital of Togo) to refuel, then onto Dulles Airport in Washington, DC. The South African U.S. Embassy team came through (even with all my complaining.) They managed to...

Poetry Challenge #134-Zoo Lovers Testify!

Its National Zoo Lovers Day. Yep, in case you need an excuse, April 8th is a day set aside for visiting the Zoo. FYI: The first modern zoo was established in the beauty of Vienna, Austria with the order of Emperor Francis I in 1752. It was created to viewing pleasure of the imperial family, but in 1765 it was extended to the public.via https://happydays365.org/zoo-lovers-d....

Poetry Challenge #134 Access Your Inner Animal Imagine youre an animal at the zoo....

Life in the Time of CoVid-Day 12 Lockdown

April 7, 2020-Day 12 of SA Lockdown: Worldwide: 1,348,628 confirmed CoVid-19 cases; 74, 816 deaths.Italy: Death Rate has risen to 16, 523; China: No New Deaths for the First Time since January.

One day into the 2nd half of the 21-day SA Lockdown and Ive hit the what now? place with a the dull thud. (Do not bother asking if we have news regarding evacuation; we have heard zip-ziltch-radio silence from our US Ambassador Lana Marks since Sunday.

And on the 12th Day, Kelly woke feeling like a cast...

Life in the Time of CoVid-Day 11 Lockdown

April 6, 2020-Day 11 of SA Lockdown: Worldwide: Since Dec 31 & April 5, 1 ,174 652 cases of COVID-19 (in accordance with the applied case definitions and testing strategies in the affected countries); 64 400 deaths.

Italy (15 362), Spain (11 744), United States (8 501), France (7 560), United Kingdom (4 313), Iran (3 452), China (3 333), Netherlands (1 651), Germany (1 342), South Africa (9), Cuba (6), Singapore (6), Trinidad and Tobago (6)180 countries so far.

Woke to gloomy skies, rain...

Life in the Time of CoVid-Day 10 Lockdown

April 5, 2020-Day 10 of SA Lockdown: Globally: More than 60,000 people have died & more than 1.1 million have been infected. Italy & Spain: There has been cause for optimism as the number of new infections and deaths from coronavirus has started to gradually diminish. LATEST UPDATE FROM EMBASSY (Apr 3):

Many of you have reached out to us since our last e-mail yesterday expressing frustration at the lag in timeline in getting you homeWhen there was a hiccup yesterday with the charter flights...

Life in the Time of CoVid-Day 9 Lockdown

April 4, 2020-Day 9 of Lockdown: Worldwide: 1,333,373 confirmed CoVid cases; 60,375 deaths. N.Y. Virus Deaths Double in Three Days to Almost 3,000; New York in 'race against time' as Trump stresses face masks are voluntary

Whos Zoomin Who? We had brunch/cocktails with the family today: Our time 7:00pm, their time between 9 and 1 pm their time. (SA is 6 hours ahead of ET, 9 hours ahead of Alaska). We slowly sipped our daily wine rations, they sipped coffeewe think it was coffeeit was in coffee...

Life in the Time of CoVid-Day 8 Lockdown

April 3, 2020-Day 8 of Lockdown: OVER 1 MILLION INFECTED

Give CoVid a round of . . . something . . .

Worldwide: 1,016,534 confirmed CoVid cases; 5,813 deaths; South Africa: 1,462.

A Third of the Global Population is on Lockdown:

I have hit a wall.

This just in from US Embassy in South Africa: There has been a hiccup regarding the logistics of our planned charter flights for South Africa, and we are now looking for additional commercial options.  We do not have exact details on a date and...