Day 16:

Evacuation Grace prep is under way.  Today I gave her room and bathroom a good going over and cleared out all my stuff that had accumulated in there; yoga mat, art supplies, teaching materials.  I seem to have spread out since she moved to London.  I'm like mold, growing into all the corners.  I've chosen a selection of books for her in hopes that she doesn't spend the entire two weeks on her computer (which is perfectly feasible).  Maybe I'll pretend we've lost power for a couple of hours a day.  The main switch is by the front door.  She'd never know I did it.  Waahahahaha!!

Watch the video below.  It's shot from a drone in a neighborhood across the city from us.  The streets are empty.  This is a city of a million people.  Wow.  If you look very carefully in the shots where you see the hills, way over to the right, half way up, I'm there waving at you!!

https://video.lastampa.it/torino/a-torino-un-intero-quartiere-canta-all-unisono-l-inno-d-italia-dal-balcone-il-flash-mob-visto-dal-drone-e-da-pelle-d-oca/111862/111870

 So they are saying that the US may be hitting peak period in 3 weeks and yet the president wants to back off shut down in 2?  Whaaaaaaat?  Will somebody pleeeeeeease tell that cretin Trump to SHUT UUUUP!

A thing to consider when people don't take this virus seriously; and when Americans think that our healthcare system can handle it; and that the reason things are so serious in Italy and Spain is that they are 3rd world countries; is that WHO (World Health Organization) ranks Italy's healthcare system as 2nd in the world, Spain's is 7th and the US's is 37th, right after Costa Rica.  The quality of healthcare is not based on the wealth of the nation but on how important the nation deems the health of their population to be.  And there you have it.  Hold onto your hats people.  These next few weeks ain't gonna be pretty.

Please be well.  xxoo me