Coronavirus Has Shut Down My Town and County

Too Close To Home

This is all getting real. Montgomery county in Texas has declared a state of emergency. Colleges are closing, all county parks are closed. Schools are closing. Panic is running a muck.

Grocery store shelves are empty, even toilet paper. The panic has started and I fear it will only get worst. One of our local police officers has been a confirmed carrier of the virus and is in the hospital now.

A State Of Disaster Has Been Declared For My County

I Fear My Business Will Suffer

Owning an air conditioning and heating service business has been my main source of revenue for the last 11 years. I fear that a customer, employee or business that we serviced will be quarantined and therefore shut operations down.

Imagine this scenario, it could really happen even to you. This would be devastating to my family and me. I hope the early precautions will help but I am not to sure it will. Is the virus really that bad? I don't know. All I know is it is creating mass panic and its economic affects could be devastating.

What do I do with my employees? Some are scared and some don't care. Some are precautious and others aren't. Its decisions I have never had to make before. Unlike the decisions I have to make about hurricanes and bad weather.

How Is It In Your Area?

How are things in your area? How is affecting you or your finances? What are you doing to prepare for possible outbreak in your area?

These are all questions you need to start answering right now. It spreads very quickly. Time will only tell how it affects my business and I hope that it doesn't.

I just had to send a message to my youth teams that I coach and let them know we will be shutting down until further notice. The Texas High School basketball state tournament has been canceled.

My daughter had a volleyball tournament last week and the girls did not touch hands with the other team at the beginning or end of the game, yet they played with a ball that everyone had touched.

My Final Thoughts

We live in a rural part of Texas where the majority of people are low to middle class, blue collar workers. There are large numbers of individuals that work in the medical industry at clinics and hospitals in the area.

This is getting very gloomy in our little town of less than 4000 people. Our local clinics don't have the tools to properly test for the virus. My father-in-law is not feeling well and he went to the doctor and he was told they don't have the test kits to test for Covid-19. This is alarming to me.

I hope this is downgraded soon but I fear it will only spread. No matter the efforts to control it, it will get worst before it gets better. My fear is not dying from it but losing my lives work and income because of it.

Any how, Wish Me Luck