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Pandemic COVID

Little prepared were we for the COVID-19 pandemic when it hit this year.  It literally turned our lives up-side-down and inside-out.  Almost every public social event was canceled, including the Montgomery Branch's Chinese New Year celebration and the Parkland's neighborhood Chinese New Year celebration, which we were helping to organize.  But even more taxing an influence was the every day impact it would have on us for a while to come.  Starting March 15, all physical church meetings were canceled for a while.  Beginning March 16, at NIST we were ordered to start teleworking every day. In Maryland, the Stay at Home order was issued on March 30, prohibiting all gatherings of more than 10 people. On March 18, we spontaneously decided to drive to Utah during a snowstorm in order to take Li-Fang's parents to Utah (after staying with us for 6 months) and to take Megan home from BYU.  Of course, we took a longer circuitous route through Oklahoma and New Mexico to avoid the sn