The Kushners, too.

At least, according to Snopes, the veracity of this claim is "mixture"

Does Jared Kushner’s Brother Own a Company Involved in COVID-19 Testing?
Oscar, a digital health-insurance startup that recently set up a service for users to find COVID-19 testing centers, was co-founded by Joshua Kushner.

This morning I very gently tried to give someone a pep speech.

Even though she never liked leaving the house to begin with, now that she has to stay home she's upset. I understand where she's coming from. She's having to eat canned food. She's watching a lot of TV. She's thirty years older than me, but I just reminded her about the sacrifices made by the WWII generation. She's borrowed many books from me about WWII and the Holocaust. I was trying to put things in perspective.

Our country was in the international news yesterday because we have people in this country calling police emergency numbers when they run out of toilet paper. There are pictures of Americans in Asian, European and Middle Eastern newspapers with shopping carts overflowing with toilet paper. I just think we need to dig down and remember who we are.

Yes, yes...

From the NYT:

Just an idea

Here are two scanner channels for LA County EMS dispatch (North and South Division).

Maybe there will be some calls related to the virus (shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, "might have COVID", etc.), or some side chatter that might provide insight on the situation. For example, they might have discussions about diverting patients from overfilled facilities, etc.

North Division: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/18435
South Division: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/18556

No guarantees. It's just a thought.

What Dr. Fauci said last night on the CNN town hall

I've been concerned about this too.

He said we shouldn't worry too much about the mail or packages because the virus doesn't live that long on paper and "by the time it gets to you it's" probably not an issue. He said, even if there is some virus on the package it is likely to be so degraded (I can't remember the exact phrase he used) that it's no longer communicable.

He did mention that it might be wise to wipe down objects inside the box but he didn't make it sound like a priority.

I'm leaving "non urgent" mail and packages to sit for a couple of days (I'll carefully open the packages, remove wrappings and set the items out and wash my hands). I'll probably wipe down anything made of plastic (I order a lot of nutritional supplements that come in plastic bottles) but not worry about things wrapped in paper boxes. I'll cut the mail open on the side instead of just ripping it open with my fingers.

But there's something he didn't address, which is if your postal delivery person is infected, because then the source and time is much closer to when it's delivered. We've already had cases (or one case) of a USPS worker being infected.

This:

Two things I'm taking

in addition to D, Lysine and Epicor are Quercetin and Liposomal Glutathione.

Quercetin

Quercetin as an Antiviral Agent Inhibits Influenza A Virus (IAV) Entry
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728566/

Antiviral effect of flavonoids on human viruses.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2981979

Quercetin: A Promising Treatment for the Common Cold
https://www.longdom.org/open-access/quercetin-a-promising-treatment-for-the-common-cold-2329-8731.1000111.pdf

Quercetin ameliorates lipopolysaccharide-caused inflammatory damage via down-regulation of miR-221 in WI-38 cells
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0014480018305562

Quercetin attenuates airway inflammation and mucus production induced by cigarette smoke in rats.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22465384

D25. COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA: CONTROVERSIES IN MANAGEMENT
https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2010.181.1_MeetingAbstracts.A6847

Also: Liposomal Glutathione (this is more of a crapshoot based on some papers I read online. Actually, they are both "crapshoots" but I'm going to try it anyway).

Could Liposomal Glutathione And Liposomal Altrient Vitamin C Be The Magic Bullets For Protection Against Pneumonia?
https://www.abundanceandhealth.co.uk/en/blog/post/119-could-liposomal-glutathione-and-liposomal-altrient-vitamin-c-be-the-magic-bullets-for-protection-against-pneumonia

Oxidative stress and regulation of glutathione in lung inflammation.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11028671

Evidence for antiviral activity of glutathione: in vitro inhibition of herpes simplex virus type 1 replication.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8540746

Inhibition of influenza infection by glutathione.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12654482

LIPOSOMAL-GLUTATHIONE AS A POTENTIAL THERAPEUTIC AGENT TO CONTROL HIV-1 INFECTION AND TUBERCULOSIS
https://www.emjreviews.com/allergy-immunology/article/liposomal-glutathione-as-a-potential-therapeutic-agent-to-control-hiv-1-infection-and-tuberculosis/

This changes everything.

"Several hours."

That's even worse than the study from the South China Morning Post saying it might live for up to 30 minutes in the air.

That's even going to make going anywhere where there are other people hazardous, no matter how much you wash your hands, unless you can hold your breath long enough to do grocery shopping.

Am I overstating the situation? Somebody calm me down.

This is like one of those Roland Emmerich disaster movies where

you think it can't possibly get any worse and it does get a hundred times worse and it's only ten minutes into the movie.

Read this and try not to have a stroke