“Crisis is like going through fire. It is the moment to make a choice. This #coronavirus pandemic is a time of social crisis. How should we then react?

There is a saying in my culture, the Pope said, when you mount your horse and you are about to cross a river, you don’t change horses. You shoulder on and you cross the river.  Be steadfast in your convictions. Those 72 + disciples who left Jesus because they don’t want to suffer – they changed horses. In moments of crisis, faithfulness, fidelity and to be closer to God and not distance ourselves from what was chosen before, are what we can do.

May God send the Holy Spirit so as not for us to resist, but to be faithful to God, to be hopeful to live in peace, afterwards. May God grant us the strength, in these crisis moments to persevere without selling out our faith,” Pope Francis’s homily today.

My sacred zone, where I cry, smile and rejoice
Playa del Rey bioluminescence by Sean Saba.
It is a phenomenon of fireflies and fishes emitting light and creating a blue shimmering surface on the ocean waters
Story of COVID-19 patient who recovered under the care of intensivists doctors
and nursing staff at Washington Hospital in Fremont.
Mango Sticky Rice icecream from Wanderlust Creamery 
a gift from hubby, the first fruit from our strawberry tree
Hubby prepared salad from our backyard lettuce.
Dinner from Sugarfish

If you put bananas and money in front of monkeys, monkeys will choose bananas because monkeys do not know that money can buy a lot of bananas.

Jack Ma of Alibaba, biggest multinational tech conglomerate

“If you put money and health in front of people, some will choose money, not knowing that health can bring more money and happiness. Same with Jesus’s teachings on the bread of life, with disciples abandoning, while the 12 apostles stayed firm that Jesus is their life and hope. The apostles chose The Bread of Life.”

Fr. Joachim

What are hopeful news?
– NY’s new infections are going down a bit
-15,000 folks have been tested for antibodies to determine infection rates, from 13.9% on April 22 to now, 12.3%
-Subway Trains are disinfected every 24 hrs, which also gives an opportunity to work with the homeless who have made the subway trains, their homes.

Context:
In 187 countries out of 195, there are 3, 426, 711 new cases with 243, 808 deaths in 3 months. 

United States has the highest deaths of 66, 368 from 1, 132, 512 new cases. 

NY has 312, 977 cases and (24, 198 deaths)
CA has 53, 347 cases and (2, 180 deaths)

Folks, we are responsible for keeping that death rate to four figures, because we kept social distancing, stayed home and wore masks to protect the other person we meet, a sacrament of charity of caring for one another.

“The high number of cases in NY was traced to folks travelling from China, then Europe, then New York. By the time they realized the spread, 19 days later, New Yorkers started at home and are contributing to their current death rates of not spiking upwards,” Gov.Cuomo shared those facts in daily briefings he held, seen by 20,000 at its peak. His theme is facts, truth, no speculation, just facts from monitoring health statistics of hospitalizations, intubation, infection rates and more. He will make reopening decisions and will be done based on science, he kept stressing. #ScienceNotPolitics #factsnotemotions