Dance Like Nobody's Watching

Oh oh, dancing with myself
Oh oh, dancing with myself
Well, there's nothing to lose
And there's nothing to prove
When I'm dancing with myself
Oh oh oh-oh...

– Dancing with Myself (Billy Idol)

When the NCAA announced today that "March Madness" games would go on but without fans in the stands, I was thinking it's going to be more like March Mildness. Here all these young men and women finally make it to the Big Dance and there's no one watching. And no one to dance with.

All their fans have to dance with themselves at home – preferably in small, hand-washing, non-germ sharing groups.

How mad.

I don't know what to think of this coronavirus anymore. And does an opinion matter? Hopefully, we're getting facts. Solid, health and science-based facts. Not just opinions.

But people still have to take those facts and likely come to an agreement with other people on big decisions like barring fans from tournament games, suspending NBA games, moving MLB games, discontinuing non-essential travel (anywhere), having employees work from home, teaching college classes online only.

It's all happening. Right. Now.

I hope we're all on the same page and not going into a panic mode, but rather thinking that if we can delay the spread by keeping people away from each other (reasonably), we have a chance to help more people effectively – and not overwhelm hospitals and infrastructure. Seriously, there are only so many nurses, doctors, hospital beds, and pieces of equipment to help people that may eventually get virus-related pneumonia.

While hubby and I feel fine, we don't know what could develop. And hopefully won't. We're not going to put ourselves in large-crowd situations for the next 10 days anyway. Especially places with old or unhealthy people with potentially vulnerable immune systems.

So that knocks church and bowling league off our lists. We're kind of serious there.

Meanwhile, our college boy still has classes and won't know until next Tuesday, March 17 (at the latest) if their spring break (March 21-29) will be extended or what. His internship this semester is in the study abroad office, which, as you can imagine, has been hit by this issue. UW-Platteville has suspended all outgoing and incoming sponsored international trips through at least May 31. And university officials are continuing to monitor the students and faculty who remain on overseas trips. Thank goodness Carter got in his semester abroad last year!

And thank God I have a job that allows me to work from home in unique situations like this! Important people like doctors, pilots, cops, truck drivers and retail cashiers can't phone it in!

Just praying my family and friends get through this thing OK. Pretty much all we can do.

And wash our hands.