Your words are wise (and so are your mother's).
Be well ..........
You, too. Pray for the folks in ERs and ICUs and for the doctors, nurses, RT,s and the others who are literally risking their own lives for our families. As I have been saying (and I heard Brix say last night) this is “droplet spread” meaning contaminated surfaces are the most likely routes of transmission rather than inhaled. Unfortunately, for healthcare workers, the procedures the do with patients, incubating, suctioning the airway means for them the transmission is different. For them it IS aerosol which is why THEY NEED the masks. Likely the size of the inoculum is much, much higher and the route is deep in the lungs not at the end of the nose. We will see the Ro and CFR for healthcare workers WILL be higher than what it is for everyone else. This countries healthcare workers will be getting ill at a terrible rate for the next week and they will probably be even sicker. And they will do it out of a sense of duty. What we can do is commit ourselves to being worth their sacrifice.
I hear the concern about wealth. Wealth is transient at best. There is no doubt this disease will “redistribute” the wealth of this country. Even the Bible lists plagues (epidemics), earthquakes, and war together. This is a globe changing event. We can unite and come together and forget about wealth for a few weeks. Let those with no dignity scrum for lucre. Remember who they were when it is over. The wealth of this country is being thrown in the air. Watch the behavior of those about you who shamefully embarrass themselves and remember. The lack of dignity is “beneath contempt”. Those with calm resolution will face the future with confidence understanding what has happened and why. Reprehensible behavior should be noted and punished. This nation is being “sifted”.