As of March 23, 2020 6:02 pm

Total confirmed cases in the US: 66,132
Total deaths: 947
Total recovered:361

The top 10 list you do not want to be on:

State         Total Cases/Deaths
1New York               33,033/366
2New Jersey           4,407/62
3California                3,169/67
4Washington           2,600/133
5Michigan                2,295/43
6Florida                1,978/23
7Illinois                1,870/19
8Massachusetts        1,838/15
9Louisiana                1,795/65
10Georgia                1,387/47

Yes we are at home and my daughter came home this morning from BC.  So we are isolating ourselves for 14 days voluntarily.   I understand now it is mandatory as of 12 midnight tonight.   We are getting food delivered by my neice who lives in Whitby.   

I am concerned by TRUMP's comments. He is speaking to his base and it is what they want to hear and believe.  In Florida the people we talked to thought it was being over blow-in and that the democrats want a recession so they can win the election.    But if he is wrong and they follow his example of not taking the situation as seriously as is being recommenced by the health care professionals:   New York State is the entire's USA future in the next 6 weeks and you could see upwards of 10,000 to 30,000 people die every week.        I hope TRUMP is right and this is a 2 week event and things go back to normal quickly.     

We are at home now.   Dropped off the Van late last night to avoid contact with anyone.
My daughter leaves tomorrow night from BC to us in Ontario.  And we have someone helping deliver food to us so we can avoid other people for the 14 day period.   

TRU needs to use this time to drastically improve their on line ordering and move to the curb side only pick up model I am seeing at some of the retailers here in Florida. 

All of the figures are also available on walmart.com for $9.99 US except for the Darth Vader and Stormtrooper and Han and Leia which are $14.92 US.   

Glad you liked it, OMB. Sorry to hear your son hated it, CJ, but your daughter does make a valid point. My biggest beef with the trilogy is the treatment of Luke, so if he was just some random Jedi, instead, maybe I would have felt differently.

Wedge’s comments reflect what I see with younger fans - and many of them are pre-teen. Teenagers of this era seem too old to get into much of anything like this. Glad you and your family enjoyed it.

While the love it or hate it is unfortunate, I was just thinking that there are some people who hated the OT as well. My brother-in-law, for one, who would have been about 9 years old when ANH came out, hates Star Wars. I can’t understand it, but it is what it is. It is a bit more of a tragedy when a long time fan of SW hates a Star Wars movie, but with different story tellers, it’s bound to happen. I wish they had stuck with one storyteller for all 3 films to make a more cohesive trilogy, but I do feel, personally, that TROS wrapped it up quite nicely.

I think my son needs to watch it a second time.  I was surprised at how much more I liked it after the second viewing.  I am pretty sure that during the first viewing I was really tired - it is a pretty fast pace movie changing scenes a lot so I was probably not in the right frame of mind when I saw it.  My son had only gotten 5 hours sleep, was up to 3 am and woke up by construction workers at 8 am at a friends house just before he saw it - so he may have had the same problem I did.   

I too wish Luke and Han Solo were treated differently as characters.  I did not like how Han left Leia and how he died.  I did not like how they portrayed Luke in the second movie or how Leia floated through space.

I did like how they handled Leia's Death .   

If the Skywalkers are done - I am OK.  If Luke had a baby boy who is Rey's age and they hook up and make more baby Skywalkers who come back and dig up those light sabers - I am good with that also. 

I love the Mandalorian - we will be watching it as a family tonight.  I will take what Disney gives us and hope it is more good than bad.   

I thought this was a cute comment from Ian McDiarmid about being a band member:

Ian McDiarmid doubts George Lucas would have brought back Emperor Palpatine

Ian McDiarmid doubts George Lucas would have brought back Emperor Palpatine in 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'.

The 75-year-old actor plays the iconic character in the money-spinning sci-fi franchise - but he doubts whether Lucas - who created the 'Star Wars' movies - would have brought Palpatine back from the dead, were he still at the helm.

He told IndieWire: "I thought I was dead!

"I thought he was dead. Because when we did 'Return of the Jedi', and I was thrown down that chute to Galactic Hell, he was dead. And I said, 'Oh, does he come back?' And [George] said, 'No, he's dead.'

"So I just accepted that. But then, of course, I didn't know I was going to be doing the prequels, so in a sense he wasn't dead, because we went back to revisit him when he was a young man. But I was totally surprised by this."

Meanwhile, McDiarmid previously admitted he felt like a band member in 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker'.

The veteran actor - who plays the main antagonist of the 'Star Wars' franchise - thinks his character and his team of "galactic nurses" resemble a band in the new movie.

He explained: "At the moment, the character is physically reliant on a number of small people, who act as galactic nurses - they are called the Heretics.

"They feel like a band, Palpatine and the Heretics. That's my abiding image of the movie."