I went to mini-milonga marathon event on 3/7-8/2020 in Dallas. There were good turnouts on both Sat and Sun.
Dallas has a much bigger Tango community than Oklahoma City. That means, there are more good or fun dancers as well. Visiting there once in a while and dance with friends and new people,...it was fun time. Thank you for the dances.
One week later, I have no cold or flu-like symptom. Average Coronavirus incubation time being said to be 5 days, I survived the milongas with zero-distance contacts with multiple people in a confined place. No problem.
Speaking of the Coronavirus, the Friday before the Sat/Sun, we had a milonga in Oklahoma City. At the time we were joking like "We got to go to Dallas tomorrow before they start cancelling these events".
Sadly it is no longer a joke.
This past week, we had stock market sell off, price gouging on masks and hand sanitizers, and shortage of toilet papers due to panic buying, followed by travel banning from Europe and declaration of national emergency.
In this past a few days, we have seen a storm of event cancellations on Facebook. A swing dance event on April I was planning to go has been cancelled, too.
For the Coronavirus itself, I am not worrying about it too much. My alert level is not so different from handling with seasonal flu. Even if I got the Coronavirus, probably I'll survive, just like with the flu.
I did have the flu about a month ago. Some stock for food and medicine in home helped then. After I recovered, I restocked some canned/frozen food and medicine, but not to hoarding amount. In the drawer there are a few large rolls of toilet paper that should last for a month or two. I should be fine for another flu/cold-like disease.
This Corona panic is more revealing issues in society, or how many people are prone to anxiety and panic.
In many cases, damage is self-inflicted. While being mindful at changing environment, we got to think for ourselves on how we deal with it. There will be people who want to "sell" something with this panic.
There are people who want to change others first, and people who reflect on themselves and try to change themselves first. I like the latter.
Anyways, eventually this will pass, too.
