From what they say on CNN, the virus came from Wuhan, China. I think it would have traveled to the US some time in December. And there were definitely confirmed cases in the US at the end of January. A student in Cambridge essentially turned himself in. It was here. And coming to get us. In Winchester. But we didn't know it yet. And just carried on...business as usual with an air of weirdness absolutely everywhere.
February Vacation we went to NYC. That's not germy at all. We did all the touristy stuff -- American Girl Doll Store, Ziggy's Stardust Diner. We walked around the lower east side. Oh yeah, and we literally swam in a sprinkle pool, definitely full of Coronavirus in SoHo. I mean, we must all have definitely had the virus - without a doubt. Look at this place - It was a germfest germapalooza!
I remember when my friend Maria and I bought the Ice Cream Museum Tix. I sent her a text saying, "Yum...swimming in a pool of corona." as a JOKE. Little did I know what a wise but messed up comment that was at the time.
Also over the vacation we continued our exposure to germs in full force visiting the museum of science with our cousins. I mean, I'm guessing not a lot of people from the Biogen Conference in Cambridge that basically gave Corona to all of Massachusetts have been in contact with anyone in Cambridge who's laid on that bed of nails.
Then there was the last restaurant we ever went to before we didn't go to restaurants any more. I can't even remember the name actually. I just googled "Sports bars Lego Discovery Center" because that's my memory of the last restaurant. It was Tony C's Sports Bar and Grill. And I remember we were being really careful. And we all washed our hands before we ate. Just makes me laugh thinking about that whole trip, knowing what we know now.
It was another weekday. We went to the outlets in Somerville for lunch and to get shoes and clothes for Ethan's Bar Mitzvah. Which we all now know never happened as it occurred on Covid-19's opening weekend. Poor Ethan.
It was also the weekend of Mason's last gym meet of the year. Which I had considerations of whether to even send her. My gut was no. It was at Beach Party Meet at Dana Hall in Wellesley, MA. There had been confirmed cases of Covid at a Wellesley elementary school just a few days before. Deep down I knew it was a bad idea and tried to talk and social-media convince my-self out of it. But how could I? It's Mason's favorite thing in the world. And she would hate to have that taken away. I wished it was cancelled. But it wasn't. So we went. Me, Mason and Jacob. And we tried not to touch or breathe on anyone. But we were sitting in bleachers....shoulder to shoulder...and the girls were all using the same equipment/chalk/gym mats and so on. But the gym did look and smell really clean! Actually, the twins and I went out after Mason's meet to California Pizza Kitchen that night. So technically, that was the last restaurant I've been to...and that was on March 8, 2020.
So that was all the fun we were having before this whole Covid-19 thing got off and running. Or before we were actually aware of the seriousness of it all. I still find it hard to believe that we didn't contract the virus somewhere along the way. But this was pretty much last days of any kind of normalcy. Nuts.
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