CoronaVirus came to Morocco. We felt pretty safe for a while. Life went on normally, with the news about this virus in China, spreading to South Korea and Japan, then Italy. On February 2nd, Barb and I were returning by taxi from Meknes, when we saw speeding towards us a motorcade. Was it the king? No. The police were escorting two large white buses, each with two guys in hazmat suits in the front! Then I remember reading in the newspaper that the King had ordered the repatriation of the several hundred Moroccan students who had been studying in Wuhan! The article noted that they would fly in to Rabat airport and then be quarantined at the Military Hospital in Rabat and the Sidi Sa'id Hospital in Meknes! We saw them! Also, as we drove by the airport I saw a huge white 747 plane there -- it's a small airport. So that was our first direct exposure, as it were, to the CoronaVirus. Two weeks later, as I retold this story in one of my teacher workshops, a participant i
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