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I’m still alive.

Same here, but living on the East side of King County, the epicenter of this thing in the US is interesting. Traffic on the freeways is lighter than usual. Our local Costco was temporarily stripped bare by people hoarding supplies. My wife, a retired nurse spent her entire hour at the beauty salon trying to calm people who were full of hysterical misinformation.

The Life Care Center in Kirkland which we have visited dozens of times in the last few years is of course completely devastated. One employee and a growing number of patients there are dead, more are seriously ill. My guess would be that Forrest Preston, the owner will be dropping that place like a hot potato at the earliest possible date. Although I would have to say that it has always been one of the better places that we have visited on a regular basis.

The good news is that the vast majority of US citizens infected still are comprised of people somehow associated with the Life Care Center and the cruise ship. To me that says that this thing does not spread as easily as we have been led to believe. It will be interesting to eventually find out who brought the infection to the Life Care Center. Was it a sick patient or was it an employee?

To me that says that this thing does not spread as easily as we have been led to believe.

One of the reasons this virus is so dangerous is that it has a long latency period, at least two weeks. There is some data showing that in a couple of cases the latency period is as long as six weeks.

We are just in the first inning of this game...nobody knows what the final score will be.

Here in the epicenter of Washington state, Seattle is buying an old Econolodge on Center Avenue in Kent. Kent residents and city council members are protesting that it will be in their community. They claim unfair as their community is more divers than other areas. Of course, the diversity makes the area more of a hub for possible outbreaks. There are many Asians and recent immigrants to the south of Seattle who are more likely to have contact with people flying to various places.

The City of Seattle says that it was chosen because each room has its own HVAC and the rooms open to the outside, not to an interior corridor.

Kent is also close to the Seattle Tacoma Airport where if someone tested positive they would not have to be moved many miles into the City of Seattle.

Kent says it sets up a scenario like the assisted living center in Kirkland which has accounted for nine or ten of Washington states deaths. But this motel would not have all residents breathing the same air as they did in the assisted living facility.