[married21]

I am worried if this happens in CA. How will we pick up our daughter and move her home after her school term ends if we are in quarantine. I really hope Trump is right about things easing up by Easter.

[independentmind]

I am amazed that your daughter is still in school.

Most colleges on the East Coast shut down for live instruction several weeks ago.

[enumerated]

Your daughter will be fine even if she gets exposed. She is young and healthy. There is a ton of media coverage when a young, healthy person dies of Coronavirus - but it is statistically rare. The people dying are mostly very old and very sick. The fact is, around the world,150,000 people die EVERY DAY of non-accidental deaths - mostly very old and very sick. On the other end of the spectrum, around 150,000 people are born every day - all extremely young (🙂) and almost all extremely healthy. It’s the cycle of life. I wonder, when they release Coronavirus death statistics each day, how do they know they are not double counting? How many of the sick and elderly who succumb to Coronavirus on a given day, would have been among the 150,000 deaths normally expected that day, even without Coronavirus? I think it’s hard for people to put these mortality numbers in perspective - but with 8 billion souls on the planet, even the rarest of occurrences can sound shocking. A pandemic is scary, but I assure you - this too shall pass. And we’ll all be better off if we stay calm and keep tho he on perspective. I wish you and your daughter all the best.

[enumerated]

Sorry about my last reply - I did use paragraphs - for some reason it got lumped together into one giant paragraph!