I’m only going to say this one more time. I say this as a person who’s finally recovering from this - describing this virus as “mild” is the same as every Connecticut road race director who describes their course as having “gently rolling hills.”

Stay home if you can. If you are an essential worker who has to continue to go out, do what you can to protect yourself. Say thank you to every grocery store clerk, every pharmacy employee, every delivery person - along with thanking the health care providers.

They are out doing their jobs so you can stay home. None of us are going to get through this if we don’t all act for the collective good.

And I know businesses are hurting. I run a nonprofit. We need businesses to do well so that people have money to donate.

This is the problem when you have essential services that address basic needs relying on a charity/philanthropy model rather than deciding what core priorities are and taxing people (including the corporations that are people) appropriately to assure adequate funding. I digress.

Back on track. We don’t have enough testing. We aren’t talking about the significant rate of false negatives of this testing. We aren’t talking about the rush to these new forms of testing when it’s not clear how accurate those tests are.

We aren’t talking enough about how so many policies are relying on taking people’s temperature to decide who should or should not come into a facility or a building WHEN WE KNOW PEOPLE WITHOUT SYMPTOMS ARE SPREADING THIS DAMN VIRUS.

Stay. Home.