Peacock Flock Take II: Just Some Mother Rambling

The view of the mountains from her window at Westfall  3/21/2020 Well, it wasn't really said like that... So how is this COVID-19 thing affecting our adult students. I don't have specifics on ALL the Universities across our great country, but I do know that MOST of them are approaching things in a very similar way. Our windshield the morning of her move out Our oldest attends school at Colorado State University (#gorams). We have a nephew & niece at other colleges; all 3 of them are in different states. They are all doing school online. Our daughter WAS living in a dorm at CSU. As you can imagine these dorms run a very high risk of becoming one of these "hot spots" for viral spread. I can also imagine that even if many of the cases were mild; having a large volume of sick kids, professors and other employees would probably affect their semester more than moving out & moving the classes online. The move out process at CSU was very organized....

Well, here we are. A life I, for one, never thought I would see in my lifetime, or my kids' lifetimes. Quarantines, Shelter-in-place Orders, no schools open, no gyms open, college students scrambling to move out of their dorms, classes online for the kids, no vaccine, no immunity, fear, unknown, loneliness... I could go on. But first, let me start... Just a few short weeks ago Americans were hearing the warnings, but really not thinking that they applied to us. We were washing our hands more, using more hand sanitizer, watching the news, but we definitely weren't social distancing. No, not at all. We were still having our fundraisers, kids were still in school and then fast forward just one week. The week of March 9th hit. In a week & a half our lives have changed drastically. We started to take the few, isolated cases we did have in America seriously. But still... We thought, "we need to protect the elderly & immune-compromised, but for the rest of us it...