Governor Andy and making Cranes

 

With people showing their support to those who have lost people during this pandemic with green lights, we wanted to show our support as well but we had an issue because the lights on our front porch is out and use old bulbs that hardly get made anymore. So something that we thought to do was to make cranes for every Kentucky death related to covid since the start of the pandemic when KY first got a related covid death. My family has done our best to keep up with the numbers reported to us by Governor Andy Beshear. 

 After a little bit of time one of our cousins that live in Lexington made us an Kentucky wood carving that has a green light behind it. We have it set up on the front porch but we typically forget to light it up so it mainly just sits there in the dark, but we try to show support to others, even though, so far, my county has had no reported deaths, but we have over 200 reported cases in my county now.

My family has also been watching Governor Andy Beshear give his updates when they come on. I wasn't a big fan of when they decided they should switch from 5 pm to 4 pm to give the updates because it slightly messed with me letting out my dogs and my mother would miss most of them because she is still working part time at a restaurant. My family that I've been in contact with that live in Kentucky usually tune into watch the updates that Kentucky's Governor. We all have watched to help us get through this, he's been very helpful to a lot of Kentuckians.

Introduction to me and covid for history project

Hey, so my name is James Batts and i'm a junior at the University of Kentucky for the fall 2020 semester . I am going to be turning 21 in October of this year. I am a white middle class male from a small Kentucky town outside of Lexington that has around 1200 people or so. I attended a public school system that got in the news a few times for some things. I'm a mathematics major and have a bit of coding knowledge. 

My sibling is diabetic and has a weaken immune system, my family has an VA doctor and a retired hospice nurse. So far my close family hasn't been affected by it much, but I do have a couple of relatives that went somewhere and then tested positive for the virus. One of those was cleared from it then it came back and it got a bit worse for that person. As far as I know that is the closest I've been in contact with this virus.

 I think that with my sibling having a weakened immune system has made it a bit difficult for us to try to not accidentally pass it on to them. I think that it's been a bit more of the burden with that but our lifestyle is a bit introverted, at least I am, so while it's been hard for some of my relatives because they are more extroverted, we don't socialize that much with them anyway so it's fine for now.