What’s Your Marker?

To keep myself busy and relatively sane, I’ve been keeping a plague journal, and have decided that the day things got real for me regarding the virus was Friday March 13, 2020. All that week I’d been keeping up with things, with increasing trepidation, but that Friday during the PBS News Hour, the reality of it and the threat to the people I love sent a shiver down my spine.

After March 13, I began the coping process which of course still continues and will for the foreseeable future.

I’m curious about your marker - what was the actual date (if there was one) when shit got real for you?