A post office in Santa Fe has closed today

because an employee has the Coronavirus. This will have an exponential ripple throughout the Post Office nationwide. So far there are no deaths in Santa Fe but the cases of infection are beginning to climb. Our city has only a few dozen cases. Luckily our governor mobilized very quickly early on because we are a huge tourist destination. Everything is closed down now. Schools are closed for the rest of the year and we’ve been staying at home since the day the World Health Organization declared COVID 19 was a pandemic. Over the last weeks all government offices have been closed. So have all restaurants and businesses. This is no longer a voluntary activity.

I’m not worried for myself. I’ve been pretty much a hermit for two years hardly going out at all. For me life is the same as it was before the virus. But I worry about the way this virus is hurting so many people.

The state is expecting a death toll of 513 deaths by the beginning of August. The population in The entire state is just over 2 million people, so we’re not that concentrated compared to just the cities of New York or LA, Seattle, etc. as a tourist destination this virus would have hit us like it hit New Orleans after they had Mardi Gras which now has the highest mortality rate in the country. That would have happened to us if it had hit us during the tourist season. We lucked out. Maybe.

The quick actions of our governor is going to help us.