18 million masks donated around the world 😷 + my "new routine"

And using this blog to cross off my daily to-dos 📃✏

Total Recovered Globally: 107,304+

(5,510+ more than yesterday! According to Johns Hopkins CSSE, 7:13PM March 24, 2020)

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Daily Blast of Happy News

• We’ve been at a shortage of medical equipment right? Well, here’s Alibaba, donating 20,000 test kits; 100,000 masks; 1,000 protective suits to each of the 54 African states

• And Apple, donating 9 million to healthcare facilities across the US and Europe

• Oh and Facebook, donating 720,000

• And honestly a variety of other tech billionaries, donating up to 18 million masks to battle COVID-19 around the world

Time for some more social media! Click into these threads to see the nice comments!

Ashley Hamer @smashleyhamer

Seen in my Chicago neighborhood. Sign says "To help our neighbors affected by the COVID-19 crisis, this Little Free Library is converted to a Little Free Pantry. Take what you need and if you can, please donate what you can spare!"

Vlad Magdalin @callmevlad

With all of us practicing social distancing and being cities/countries apart from our loved ones, I wanted to start a thread with examples of humans joyfully reuniting after long periods apart for us to look forward to. First, here's a dad surprising his son after a deployment.

Samir Sinha @DrSamirSinha

A 95 YEAR OLD ITALIAN TRIUMPH! Modena, Italy's first recovered #COVIDー19 patient is a 95 years old grandmother Alma Corsini. Given how much this virus is an enemy to the old, this is indeed some much needed positive news amidst the chaos in Italy. independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…

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I’m starting a daily to-do list! What are yours?

Today’s so far:

• List out to-dos [Done]

• Respond to Rami [Done]

• Go through public documentation

• Clean for 5 minutes

• Do dishes

• Respond to IG messages [Done]

• Make a video for my podcast trailer

• Make this blog post [Done]

• Do Insanity [Done]

• Do a stretch routine [Done]

• Dance

• Do taxes

• Record a podcast episode

… am I reaching? Over-committing? (Oh hell yeah cause half these are carry-overs…). I mean I have also spent time going to a local bagel shop, buying a bagel, getting a bagel for free 💸, chatting with friends, complimenting a coworker’s dog, dancing in an empty parking lot until it started raining…

Let me know what your to-dos are in the comments below! Pretend you read this. 🙏🏻

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