Sharing Your Confinement: Central Coasters Coming Together
SHARING YOUR CONFINEMENT: We want to see how you are getting along with California's stay-at-home order, whether you're working from home, teaching your kids or just dancing in your living room. Send us your videos and pictures and you might make it on our newscast! You can post on our Facebook page, Twitter account or send them in at newstips@kionrightnow.com.
NOTE: KION's Josh Kristianto currently shows no symptoms of COVID-19 (coronavirus). He is self-isolating by his own choice for the benefit of his family and the public after returning from the United Kingdom in a recent trip. News-Press & Gazette Company, who owns KION, has also mandated he stay and work from home to safeguard those working in the newsroom.
SALINAS, Calif. (KION) There are few events in our country's history that impact us all as a whole so deeply, down from each family unit to our sense of community as a nation.
The Great Depression, World War 2, the assassination of presidents, 9/11. These are all moments where something greater than ourselves takes hold of the what we talk about and how we live.
The COVID-19 pandemic, I believe, will go down in history as something this generation worldwide will look back on with collective awe both at how grave the situation was and how it changed our day to day lives, down to the way we shop for groceries, meet with friends and family and even walk pass someone on the hiking trail.
This pandemic is connecting us all together in a struggle we all will share no matter what part of the globe you're on; that mother in South Korea is telling her kids to wash their hands in the same way that dad is in Monterey.
But the one thing that's definitely different now then perhaps other major global and national events before is our ability to share our stories with other people. We take pictures and videos, do TikToks and Instagram, post on Facebook and Twitter, showcasing all of our lives and joys and struggles.
Recording and keeping record of what life is like now in this time is important, to remember these days in hopes of appreciating more deeply the life we long to return to.
That's why at KION we'd love for you to Share Your Confinement (info above!). Send us photos and videos of what life is like for you, your kids, your dogs and cats and sheep, your business, your town. I believe it'll show us we're part of a bigger community, going through the same joys and struggles under confinement.
Years from now, new generations will see what we went through and hopefully become more thankful of the life they're living. I've been taking a lot of photos of what life is like under confinement in Salinas. I hope you'll join me.
