March 11, 2020: Coronoavirus Has Officially Affected My Day-to-Day

Yesterday, I was supposed to go to an information session with a prospective employer at Cal State Long Beach.

Guess what happened?

Just 2 hours before the session, canceled --- because of coronavirus.

In the news is that 10 Cal State Long Beach students and 2 advisors have self-quarantined.

It's one thing seeing markets crashing hard, people on the docks being out of work due to a lack of shipments, Serie A soccer in Italy basically shutting down, the banning of large public gatherings in various places, and hearing our aunt call us to warn us about how water bottles are running out at the local Wal-mart. 

Quite another to feel the impact directly when the wife is hearing whispers of possible school cancellation and when a seemingly innocuous meeting (that actually could've meant a lot for my economic future) is canceled.

Now the big dripping question shooting through my head:  how is anyone going to get paid, and what is this going to do to us?

Cal State Long Beach has sent me two different updates:  they're playing going to play basketball games without spectators and how face-to-face classes will be suspended for about 1 month, until April 20th, about 1 month and a half from now.

The person or at least person representing the people who were supposed to show up sent us an email this morning.

Basically... "here are some flyers, check us out online, g'luck!"