ISOLATION: DAY ONE

After stocking up on massive amounts of dry and canned goods, fueling up the vehicle, bumping up our water storage, and going on an ammo run…the Davis household is ready for an extended period of self-isolation, if worse comes to worse.

And, my friends, as Bachman Turner Overdrive sang all those years ago, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!”

340,400+ infections and over 14,500 deaths worldwide as of this writing…and the numbers climb incessantly higher, driven on by those who choose NOT to practice social distancing or who continue to gather in groups to party like it’s 1999 (another year that the doomsayers heralded the apocalypse). It’s like no one cares whether they are COVID-19 carriers; heck, they would rather infuse their insides with Everclear-laced drinks in the hopes that it immunizes them.

So here I sit, in my office, as countless end-of-the-world scenarios run their fleeting rabbit feet through my brain (in the hopes that one or two of them stick as story outlines for future use) and I wonder, “How much deeper does this rabbit hole go?”

Isolation: Day One sounds like a made-for-tv movie title: hokey but serious; PG-13 material for sure. A good summertime two hour escape from reality.

Except we can’t escape from the harsh outlook, and those three chilling words that every news pundit is shouting from the rooftops:

Shelter in Place.

So stay safe; be healthy; and make wise choices.