Friday, April 02, 2021

Shelter In-Place COVID-19 Blog March 2021

California issued shelter in-place orders on Tue Mar 17, 2020. I have been logging the highlights and lowlights. One blink of an eye the month is Apr. Minor nose rash, upper lip rash, and left calf strain were the health problems experienced together. Otherwise, my routines were consistent in the fastest month of 2021. More counties in CA upgraded from purple to either red or orange.

Tue Mar 2. Santa Clara County lifted the 10-day travel quarantine for residents traveled 150 miles or greater outside the county.

Santa Clara, Napa, and San Francisco counties upgraded from the purple tier to the red tier in the State of California's Safer Economy COVID-19 color reopening tier. Gyms open at 10% capacity, restaurants open indoor dining at 25% capacity or 100 people whichever is fewer, movie theaters open at 25% capacity or 100 people whichever is fewer, museums open at 25% capacity, zoos open at 25% capacity, and aquariums open at 25% capacity.

Wed Mar 3. Shopped at a Nike Store for new running shoes. Fitting rooms closed. All seating areas removed to try shoes on. Nike shoe guarantee is all returns accepted within 60 days no questions asked.

I shopped at Pep Boys to purchase a steering wheel cover. I changed my car's motor oil in the afternoon.

Thur Mar 4. Baseball stadiums in CA to allow fans when regular seasons begins on Thur Apr 1, 2021 as long as their county is not in the purple tier.

Fri Mar 5. CA high schools allow indoor sports. High schools follow college and professional sports COVID-19 protocols.

CA to allow outdoor activities starting Thur Apr 1, 2021 at limited capacity: sports, music, art, and amusement parks. Restrictions depend on the county's place in the California's Safer Economy COVID-19 color reopening tier.

CA Governor Gavin Newsom signed the $6.6B school reopening bill.

Mon Mar 8. I visited my brother's house in the Tri-Valley. More cars on the freeways. Any traffic jam stop and go was brief. Traffic flowed at the limit.

Wed Mar 10. Texas was the first state to lift the state mask mandate. The entire state is opened.

Thur Mar 11. President Joe Biden signed the $1.9T relief bill.

Fri Mar 12. Shopped at Costco Business Center. Normal crowds. Social distancing practiced. Visited my aunt in Alameda. More cars on the freeways. More traffic jam stop and go; otherwise, traffic flowed at the limit.

Sat Mar 13. CA averaged 4,000 COVID-19 cases a week. The last time the state averaged 4,000 was Halloween 2020. 3,477 hospitalized on Halloween 2020. 22,000 hospitalized on January 2021. Total CA COVID-19 cases 3.6M and 55,000 deaths. The death number is the highest in the USA.

25% of CA adults received at least one vaccine shot.

Tue Mar 16. Quick errands to the post office and Bank Of America. The branch I visited three customers came in and out during my brief wait.

Wed Mar 17. Day 365 of CA shelter in-place.

Fri Mar 19. The Center For Disease Control announced students from grade school to high school can sit three feet apart. Students must separate six feet apart in common areas.

President Biden announced 100M vaccinations administered on his 58th day as President.

Sat Mar 20. Paris announced one month lockdown.

Tue Mar 23. San Francisco and Santa Clara Counties upgraded from red tier to orange tier.

Fri Mar 26. Quick errands to the post office and Safeway. Few customers at Safeway.

Tue Mar 30. Cases rising in 27 states. People under age 60 are the majority of new cases.

Wed Mar 31. Johnson & Johnson announced 15M vaccine doses bad due to human error.

Update On A Past Blog

I made a mistake on Timeout Good Raymond Mar III written on Mar 15, 2021. I wrote I built my second desktop PC in Dec 2020-Jan 2021. The dates are incorrect. The correct dates are Dec 2019-Jan 2020. The sentence is deleted.

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