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Day 11

Oh, my what a day! I’m involved in projects in three different departments these days, so believe it or not, I go to all three department meetings on Thursday. Between those meetings and editing the video for our online church service I was hopping.

While I was delivering the video to the church office, I saw two posts that our local news site had posted on Instagram.

First, that the mosques are opening. This is huge! Some services of prayer have been closed for over a year now!

 

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Next I saw that restaurants are reopening for indoor dining.

 

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Now, we have been a bit closed for sometime and it seemed likely it would continue, since the cases have been on the rise since December. In February we averaged the highest number of cases all year and February was also the deadliest month we’ve seen in Bahrain.

This chart shows good news. The cases are going down for the past week, but they are still higher than most of the year. Is that all it took to open everything?

Maybe vaccinations have influenced the openings, as well. We’re doing great, but I don’t think they call that herd immunity yet.

Then at 5:00 p.m. we received an email from school saying that blended learning will begin again on Sunday.

OK. I didn’t see that coming!