Today marks the one-hundredth day since my family went into voluntary self-isolation in response to the global coronavirus pandemic. During January and February I’d been following the outbreaks in China and especially Italy very closely (I’m something of a news junkie) and we had been mildly concerned… but when Italy began a lockdown of its northern provinces in early March, we realized that it would be a good possibility that we’d face a similar problem.
The threat of a viral pandemic, especially one that appeared to be spread by contagious people who were non-symptomatic for the first stage of the infection, is one that my immediate family had to take seriously: One member of our household has a compromised immune system. In early March we consciously began to start stocking up on essentials.
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