We were in Madrid, Spain middle of January to the first week of February visiting our daughter who moved there last year. When we watched the news, there was brief talk about the coronavirus, mainly that it started in Wuhan, China and possibly from bats or pangolines (an animal whose scales are used in ancient medicines). The news was not alarming and it seemed to not be a big story. We learned that there was only one case in Spain in the Canary Islands. It didn't become real until we were at the Madrid airport and saw large groups of Asian travelers wearing masks and 2000 additional cases were reported in one day in China. I still naively thought that this was going to be contained to China. I was very wrong, as Italy and then Spain quickly becoming an epicenter. We were fortunately that our daughter returned back to the States before things escalated. And now, just a few short weeks later, New York is now the epicenter and no state in our country has been spared. This seems so surreal.
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