@amsunshine , I live in a beach town on the central east coast of Florida. I also have relatives in many areas of the state, and from everything I hear from them, they are practicing social distancing, as we are. I’m on several Facebook groups for locals, and the vast majority are expressing the same. You do see some people who are not, but I guess that’s true everywhere. Unfortunately, there are still some tourists showing up, and many of them do not seem to be taking this seriously. It seems that they are from places with stay-at-home orders, their work and schools are shut down, so they think it’s a great time to take a beach vacation. It is a problem. Also, remember that the national news medium isn’t going to show all of us who are doing the right thing - that doesn’t make for a good news story. They will look for the worst cases and that’s what they report.
Pelosi says Trump and McConnell “should not try to hide behind” impeachment excuse over coronavirus response
From CNN’s Clare Foran
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday that President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell “should not try to hide behind an excuse” in response to the suggestion from both the President and the Kentucky Republican that impeachment distracted the US government from the growing coronavirus crisis.
“I think that’s an admission that perhaps the President and the majority leader cannot handle the job,” Pelosi told CNN’s Anderson Cooper in an interview.
“We have a life and death situation in our country and they should not try to hide behind an excuse for why they did not take action, but it does admit that they did not take action,” Pelosi said, adding, “Right now we have to work together to get the job done.”
Some context: In an interview on Tuesday with radio host Hugh Hewitt, McConnell said that the crisis “came up while we were tied down in the impeachment trial. And I think it diverted the attention of the government, because everything, every day was all about impeachment.”
During a press briefing on Tuesday, Trump echoed that argument, saying that impeachment “probably did” distract him from responding to the coronavirus outbreak.
“I think I handled it very well, but I guess it probably did (distract me),” Trump said. “I mean, I got impeached. I think, you know, I certainly devoted a little time to thinking about it.”
Florida drive-thru coronavirus testing site booked nearly 2,000 appointments in one day
From CNN’s Rosa Flores and Sara Weisfeldt
The first Covid-19 drive-thru testing site in Palm Beach County, Florida, opened yesterday and has already stopped taking calls to their screening hotline, according to a statement from the county.
Nearly 2,000 appointments have been made through Saturday, according to a press release.
“The goal is to reopen the phone lines tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. if Palm Beach County receives additional test kits,” the release says.
By county, Palm Beach has the third most cases in the state of Florida, according to the Florida Department of Health.
20 million US workers are likely to be laid off or furloughed by July, according to think tank
From CNN’s Christine Romans
A nonpartisan think tank believes that 20 million US workers will likely be laid off or furloughed by July.
In a blog post on Monday, the Economic Policy Institute estimates that this will bring unemployment rates “into the mid-teens.”
The estimates account for the recently enacted CARES Act and assumes a fourth coronavirus relief bill, EPI said.
Some more perspective: Goldman Sachs has significantly downgraded its outlook for the US economy between April and June. The investment bank now expects an annualized rate of contraction of 34% compared to the previous quarter. The last estimate was an already-shocking 24%.
Goldman revised its forecast because it thinks the US labor market collapse will be even worse than anticipated. It now sees the unemployment rate rising to 15% by the middle of the year, compared to 9% before.
The bank has also updated its predictions for an economic rebound between July and September, which it thinks will be stronger than what it had last penciled in. But in the interim, Wall Street is clearly bracing for pain.
I’m pretty upset that some states are taking advantage of this virus crisis to restrict abortion access further, and that some federal leaders are taking advantage of the virus to reduce/bypass environmental regulations.
Maybe now we do not need to do this with Florida:
New Jersey has procured about 10 million pieces of protective equipment for healthcare workers
From CNN’s Sheena Jones
The state of New Jersey has procured roughly 10 million pieces of personal protective equipment for healthcare workers, Gov. Phil Murphy said today.
The equipment will be hitting the warehouses in the next couple of weeks, the governor said.
The state has at least 800 ventilators, including the ones received from Federal Emergency Management Agency, Murphy said.
By the numbers: New Jersey has 22,255 coronavirus cases and 355 deaths, according to CNN’s tally.
New York governor says a “new normal” will emerge after coronavirus
From CNN’s Adrienne Vogt
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the coronavirus has changed the state and society forever.
“I don’t think we get back to normal. I think we get back or we get to a new normal,” Cuomo said. "…Our challenge is to make sure that transformation and that change is positive and not negative.”
Cuomo stressed that this pandemic is preparing us for the inevitable next disaster and how we respond to it.
“You will get knocked on your rear end. You will deal with pain. You will deal with death. You will deal with setback. You will deal with suffering. Question is, how do you get up?”
Cuomo said that there’s a lot to learn from this pandemic when it comes to tele-medicine, tele-education, local supplies and research.
Democrats detail priorities for infrastructure in fourth coronavirus response bill
From CNN’s Haley Byrd and Manu Raju
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that Democrats are aiming to pass a fourth coronavirus response bill when — “God willing, coronavirus willing” — Congress returns at the end of April.
“When we come back, we’ll be ready, and that will be when we have the debate and go forward, and hopefully that will be soon,” Pelosi told reporters on a phone call.
Pelosi and other Democratic leaders said Wednesday that they want a potential fourth coronavirus response bill to include their infrastructure framework, which would cost $760 billion over five years. This money would go to community health centers, clean water upgrades, expanded broadband access, roads and bridges, and rail and other forms of public transit.
“We must take bold action to renew America’s infrastructure,” Pelosi said. “We need to invest in our infrastructure to address some of the critical impacts and vulnerabilities in America that have been laid bare by the coronavirus.”
Democrats said they are especially concerned about rural, low income areas that may be hit hard by the pandemic and economic fallout. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the Democratic Whip, said that Covid-19 has “exposed some significant faults,” like how many Americans do not have access to internet, which many kids need to continue their studies during the pandemic.
President Trump has recently called for a $2 trillion infrastructure package to boost the economy, a move Democrats have praised as they seek to craft the next pandemic-related infrastructure package.
“Actually, he’s right,” Rep. Peter DeFazio, who chairs the Transportation and Infrastructure committee, said of Trump’s comments. "For once I agree with him on a step he wants to take.”
Doctors and local officials call on Tennessee governor to mandate stay-at-home order
From CNN’s Gregory Lemos
A growing number of doctors and local leaders are calling on Gov. Bill Lee to issue a stay-at-home order in their state or, they warn, Tennessee “will become the next epicenter” of the coronavirus outbreak.
Dr. Aaron Milstone, a Franklin County based acute care pulmonologist, and nine other medical leaders who represent thousands of doctors, sent a letter to Lee urging him to “act swiftly.”
“It is our estimation that we have little time to “flatten the curve” on the current situation,” the letter reads. “China and South Korea have made great progress by imposing restrictive measures. We ask that Tennessee do the same.”
Milstone’s letter was accompanied by a letter from the Members of the Middle Tennessee Delegation urging the governor to listen to the outcry from the medical community.
“Our ability to manage the pandemic at the local level is limited and varied,” the letter read. “We feel strongly that the quickest path to recovery is a uniform response to this challenge.”
Milstone joined with the Tennessee Medical Association to organize an online petition that, as of Wednesday morning, had over 30,000 signatures of both doctors and residents in support of the governor issuing a stay at home order. Nearly every medical association and over 100 mayors across the state have endorsed this cause as well, according to Milstone.
New York governor predicts state coronavirus cases will peak at the end of April
CNN
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today that the state will hit its apex for coronavirus cases “roughly at the end of April.”
“Which means another month of this,” he added.
The governor said at that point, based on the projections, New York will need 110,000 Covid-19 hospital beds and 37,000 ventilators.
At least 1,941 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died across New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a press conference from Albany.
“That number will continue to go up,” he said.
At least 391 of those people have died in the past 24 hours, he said.
Cuomo said at least 83,712 people have tested positive for coronavirus in New York.
Pence says US could have “coronavirus largely behind us” by June if guidelines are followed
From CNN’s Adrienne Vogt
Vice President Mike Pence said the worst of the coronavirus for the United States could be over by early June if all guidelines are followed.
“I hope people look at what happens if all of us continue to do our part, and that is by some time in early June, we could well have the coronavirus largely behind us as a nation, reopen our country, put America back to work,” Pence told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
“I never want to minimize the loss. I just want to make sure people know there is light at the end of the tunnel. We can save lives between now and the summertime by putting these guidelines into practice,” Pence said.
But Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said that while there are early indications that social distancing appears to be working, the US could see another surge of the coronavirus in the fall.
Pence said he agrees with that assessment. “We believe that the likelihood is that, just like the flu, that the coronavirus will likely manifest again either in the fall or in the winter of next year.”
part 3
2017
Global Health Security Is National Security
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK458470/
2017 Time magazine - the world is not ready for the next pandemic
https://time.com/magazine/us/4766607/may-15th-2017-vol-189-no-18-u-s/
2018 Time -
Why America Could Become Vulnerable to the Next Major Pandemic
https://time.com/5177802/cdc-budget-cuts-infectious-disease/
2018 - the atlantic, is America ready for the next pandemic?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-the-next-plague-hits/561734/
2015 the lancet - the ebola outbreak shows us we are only as safe as our weakest states
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60858-3/fulltext
Recent article looking at the tragic effects of Trump disbanding the pandemic team
President Barack Obama created the pandemic preparedness office at the National Security Council in 2016, after his administration was criticized for its initial response to the Ebola epidemic in 2014 and 2015.
Republican lawmakers blasted Obama for refusing to impose travel bans and quarantines. When two American nurses contracted Ebola in 2014 while caring for an infected patient, some GOP lawmakers called on Obama to designate a czar or oversee the response.
2017 warning by pandemic team head
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/24/15684750/cdc-reaction-trump-public-health-cuts
2018 make food safe - Trump’s cuts to endemic response team endanger Americans
https://www.makefoodsafe.com/budget-cuts-to-cdcs-epidemic-programs-endanger-american-lives/
2017 CDC warning
https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/fieldupdates/winter-2017/why-it-matters.html
2017 CDC pandemic plan that Trump didn’t follow
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/pan-flu-report-2017v2.pdf
2017 WHO pandemic risk assessment
@privatebanker
The above is just a small part of what I have been reading for months (and in prior years) that made me feel from very early that Trump was not handling this the right way. The claim that you stated that others also got it wrong does not portray the situation as I saw it as events occurred. I rarely watch or read Fox new but did see enough to see that the situation was portrayed very, very differently there and very much the way Trump did in his statements that things would poof away and it was being overhyped, etc and this continued until Tucker Carlson spoke up and a bit after that, I believe, mid-march. The difference in reporting was vast. Not everyone was perfectly right, but everyone just about was a lot more on the ball than Trump was, which is very unfortunate.
part 2
January 21 telebriefing with CDC
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/t0121-Telebriefing-Coronavirus.html
nancy Messonnier’s response seems to me to assume that airport screening was done properly, which we know did not happen (people came from hotspots with no questions, including from a locked down area of china in February and even march from Italy with no airport screening on arrival!) It also assumes the ability to test and do contact tracing, which we know now didn’t happen well enough or much at all due to the severe delay and shortage in testing and also due to not including the areas of concern as the virus spread. I think had Dr. Messonnier realized those things she likely would have had a different message. 'The confirmation that human to human spread with this virus is occurring in Asia certainly raises our level of concern about this virus, but we continue to believe the risk of this novel coronavirus to the American public at large remains low at this time. Activation of the EOC and the enhanced airport entry screening reflect the continuation of CDC’s very aggressive public health response strategy. Enhanced airport screening is just one part of a layered approach to increasing the public health and healthcare delivery system to raising its awareness to properly detect the cases early. ’
Bill Gates 2015
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-bill-gates-predicted-pandemic-in-2015/
2018 - Cuts to pandemic team endanger Americans
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/03/health/cdc-slashes-global-epidemic-programs-outrage/index.html
2018
cutting this program is shortsighted NPR
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/02/12/585119417/trump-proposes-deep-cuts-in-detecting-disease-outbreaks-worldwide
“Cutting this money is shortsighted,” says Dr. Paul Spiegel, who directs the Center for Humanitarian Health at Johns Hopkins University. “By downsizing this program, outbreaks may not be detected as quickly now, and in the end, the U.S. could wind up spending more money [to stop an emergency outbreak].”
January 2020
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/480259-former-head-of-cdc-warns-coronavirus-more-infectious-than-sars
More from former CDC head - US fighting Covid 19 without the CDC
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/24/coronavirus-response-us-cdc-tom-frieden-usa-today/2910582001/
It’s a stark reversal from the past, when the CDC not only took the lead in the U.S. but globally against the threat of infectious disease. This time, however, the agency that has led every major epidemic response in the nation for the past seven decades is just not there, Frieden said. Its 700 professionals specifically focused on infectious and lung disease appear sidelined.
“Fighting an epidemic without CDC involved at the decision table and at the podium is like fighting with one hand tied behind your back,” he said.
In previous outbreaks, the CDC had often daily calls with reporters. This time, the CDC has had multiple news conferences canceled “because if the White House is having a press conference, they can’t have one,” Frieden said. The last one archived on the CDC’s media page is from March 9.
End of January - Washington Post warning
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/30/next-pandemic-is-coming-were-not-prepared-it/
2017
Global Health Security Is National Security
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK458470/
2017 Time magazine - the world is not ready for the next pandemic
https://time.com/magazine/us/4766607/may-15th-2017-vol-189-no-18-u-s/
2018 Time -
Why America Could Become Vulnerable to the Next Major Pandemic
https://time.com/5177802/cdc-budget-cuts-infectious-disease/
2018 - the atlantic, is America ready for the next pandemic?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/07/when-the-next-plague-hits/561734/
2015 the lancet - the ebola outbreak shows us we are only as safe as our weakest states
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60858-3/fulltext
Recent article looking at the tragic effects of Trump disbanding the pandemic team
President Barack Obama created the pandemic preparedness office at the National Security Council in 2016, after his administration was criticized for its initial response to the Ebola epidemic in 2014 and 2015.
Republican lawmakers blasted Obama for refusing to impose travel bans and quarantines. When two American nurses contracted Ebola in 2014 while caring for an infected patient, some GOP lawmakers called on Obama to designate a czar or oversee the response.
2017 warning by pandemic team head
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/24/15684750/cdc-reaction-trump-public-health-cuts
2018 make food safe - Trump’s cuts to endemic response team endanger Americans
https://www.makefoodsafe.com/budget-cuts-to-cdcs-epidemic-programs-endanger-american-lives/
2017 CDC warning
https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/healthprotection/fieldupdates/winter-2017/why-it-matters.html
2017 CDC pandemic plan that Trump didn’t follow
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/pdf/pan-flu-report-2017v2.pdf
2017 WHO pandemic risk assessment
Will the US issue a nationwide shelter-in-place order? Here’s what Pence said.
CNN
While the White House has issued national social distancing guidelines through April, federal officials have not mandated a nationwide shelter-in-place order. Many individual states however, have issued those kinds of restrictions.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer just asked Vice President Mike Pence why the Trump administration hasn’t given such an order.
“At the present moment, we truly do believe that the strong actions taken in places like California and Washington and New York and New Jersey are appropriate,” Pence said. “We fully support those efforts.”
Pence added that officials continue to look at “every option.”
“We’re going to continue to bring the president the best recommendations based on real-time data and science for what every state, what every community should be doing,” he said.
Pence says coronavirus task force will make recommendation on wearing masks “at the appropriate time”
Vice President Mike Pence said that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is looking at the the issue of masks “as a protective measure” for all Americans “right now.”
He said that the White House task force will make a recommendation on that to President Trump.
On the timing of that recommendation, Pence told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer during an interview today, “We’ll bring those recommendations to the President at the appropriate time.”
Nearly 100 sailors aboard a Navy ship have tested positive for coronavirus
From CNN’s Barbara Starr
There are nearly 100 sailors who have tested positive for Covid-19 on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a senior defense official tells CNN. The Navy has every expectation that the number will rise, source added.
About 1,000 of more than 4,000 crew members have been tested so far. The official said about 1,000 sailors have been moved ashore in Guam and that is expected to rise to 3,000 in the coming days.
Guam’s Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero said on Wednesday she will allow sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in Guam if they test negative for coronavirus and undergo a 14-day quarantine.
Some context: CNN reported Tuesday that the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a US Navy aircraft carrier where an outbreak of the coronavirus has spread to at least 70 sailors, has warned Navy leadership that decisive action is required to save the lives of the ship’s crew.
“We are not at war. Sailors do not need to die. If we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset — our Sailors,” Capt. Brett Crozier wrote in a memo to the Navy’s Pacific Fleet, three US defense officials have confirmed to CNN.
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly told CNN’s John King Tuesday that the Navy was working to get the sailors off the ship. “We don’t disagree with the (Commanding Officer) on that ship and we’re doing it in a very methodical way because it’s not the same as a cruise ship, that ship has armaments on it, it has aircraft on it, we have to be able to fight fires if there are fires on board the ship, we have to run a nuclear power plant, so there’s a lot of things that we have to do on that ship that make it a little bit different and unique but we’re managing it and we’re working through it,” he added.
It defies reason, doesn’t it? I wonder what the national news will show him yelling about tonight?
Since FL’s instituting a stay at home order earlier in relationship to their infection rate than NY did, does that imply you think New York’s governor is also an idiot and NYers not big believers that CV is a “thing?” NY has 3 million fewer people than Florida yet waited until more were infected, a higher rate of their population, to issue a stay at home order.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday that he’ll be issuing a statewide stay-at-home order as the state’s confirmed coronavirus cases approached 7,000 Wednesday (March 31) https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/more-than-3000-coronavirus-cases-in-miami-dade-and-broward-fla-total-at-6338/2213461/
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Friday issued a sweeping edict meant to compel New Yorkers to stay indoors as much as possible, ordering all nonessential businesses to keep their workers home as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the state raced toward 8,000 (March 20) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/nyregion/coronavirus-new-york-update.html
Sorry of there are any duplicate posts. I tried and thought I had posted it all but it looked like it wasn’t there so posted again. The point is that there were a lot of articles talking very clearly about what should be done and what wasn’t being done. Trump was not doing those things for the most part, which directly led us to the current situation.
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part 1
Untrue, unfortunately. The idiot beach goers have helped spread this to so many who wouldn’t have died or gotten sick if not for them. We can all be careful as can be but there is still spread that will happen despite cautions taken. My proof, the continued spread in areas such as Wuhan, China and surrounding regions despite the extreme lock down and precautions people took. It took a very long time to get the virus under control there. Those spreading it absolutely impact other people.
The liquor stores are open in my southern, red state, South Carolina.
We are back to the Florida versus New York debate…
I just heard reported on the radio that New York expects the peak of its deaths to occur around April 30, while Florida expects it to occur around May 3. So, at least according to that model, the two states do not appear to be very far apart on the trajectories of their disease progressions. But Florida today has 87 deaths, while New York has had almost 2,000, probably even more by now.
FWIW, the central estimates/projections on this website are for Florida to see 6,937 deaths from COVID-19 by late summer, and for New York to see 16,090: https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections
Spring break canceled in New York
CNBC
New York is canceling spring break for public and charter schools across the state. Remote learning will continue during these weeks of April amid the coronavirus pandemic. Spring break for New York City public schools was scheduled to be from April 9 to 17.
“Districts must continue to provide remote instruction for students, meals for students, and child care for essential workers every weekday between April 1, 2020 and April 14, 2020, even if the district is scheduled to be on spring break during that time,” the New York State Education Department said in a memo.
Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, sent an email to New York City teachers saying that they will be off from April 9 to April 12 for religious holidays. Mulgrew also added that the week of April 13 will be a “special week of family service and support.”
Home Depot asks employees to check temperature before work, limits customer traffic
CNBC
Home Depot is distributing thermometers to employees who work in stores and distribution centers. The home improvement retailer is asking employees to use the forehead thermometers at home to check for a fever, a symptom of COVID-19.
Home Depot will also limit the number of customers to 100 people at a time. Other customers will be asked to wait outside and remain socially distanced from one another, company spokeswoman Sara Gorman said. Its stores average 100 square feet.
Home Depot has about 400,000 store employees in the U.S.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts pledges $500 million for employees whose jobs are impacted by coronavirus
Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts has committed $500 million to support employees as coronavirus quarantines temporarily shut down business units.
Roberts said Comcast would put aside $500 million in pay and benefits for employees “where operations have been paused or impacted.” He also said he would join Comcast’s senior executives — Chief Financial Officer Mike Cavanagh, Comcast Cable CEO Dave Watson, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell and Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch — in donating 100% of their salaries to charities to support coronvirus relief efforts.
Comcast has seen its broadband usage spike as Americans largely stay at home during COVID-19 quarantines. CNBC
Travelers through TSA checkpoints dropped to 10-year low Tuesday
The Transportation Security Administration said 146,348 passengers went through a TSA checkpoint on Tuesday, setting a new record low for the past 10 years. About 2.03 million travelers were screened on the same day a year earlier. CNBC
Doubt has been cast over India’s claim that it has no community transmission of coronavirus after the country reported its biggest daily rise in number of cases so far, connected to a religious gathering held in Delhi two weeks ago.
India reported a record increase of 386 cases in the past 24 hours, pushing the total number to 1,637, according to the country’s health ministry. The death toll is now 38.
In another worrying development, the first coronavirus case was also confirmed in Mumbai’s Dharavi slum, which is India’s largest and is home to almost one million people living in close, unsanitary quarters. The 56-year-old man was taken to Sion hospital and eight of his family members placed into quarantine. (Guardian)
Unemployment in Austria has jumped by 66% to the highest level since records began in 1946, despite a government bid to avoid mass lay-offs amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Official data shows that the unemployment rate in the country rose by 4.8 points from the same period in 2019 to 12.2%, as jobs in sectors including tourism and retail were wiped out.
The number of people registered as jobless has climbed by 65.7% to 504,345, according to employment agency AMS.
An effective lockdown was imposed in Austria more than two weeks ago, with restaurants, bars, theatres, and non-essential shops among the places that were forced to close.
The public have been told to stay at home and work there if possible, as is the case in many Western countries.
Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler of the Greens told a news conference that the pandemic was “the biggest meteorite to crash into economic life since 1946.” (Guardian)
I guess we can pick our battles but in the grand scheme of things, there are so many people that are out and about every day (i.e. called “essential workers”) that are far more likely to be spreading this virus. For example, I walked this morning around the block to grab a coffee “to go” and there are dozens and dozens of construction workers renovating a 20-story building. None of them are wearing masks, they are working in close contact with each other, sharing tools, etc. You think they are not going home to their families and infecting them? This scene is going on 1,000 of times every day in the U.S. in many, many industries. These workers are a bigger danger to us than a few families on “vacation”.
The only thing I can do is stay away from them, wash my hands, don’t touch my face and socially isolate the best I can. I’m really not going to get all worked up by a family that is trying to enjoy their time together. It seems a little misplaced when you look at the big picture. No panic, take care of what you can take care of…