1/ Soon enough, this panic will become like the Clinton impeachment or the Iraq war or Barry Bonds hitting 756, a moment in US history we all want to forget: Remember the spring when we wore masks and crashed the economy and pretended no one had ever died before? Craaazy times...

2/ Remember how that @CNN anchor wrote about taking baths? We'll call it the coronaflu and mock our own panic and in a year or two, once the obvious economic damage has passed, we'll just shrug and do our best to get back to life...

3/ But we shouldn't. We all need to remember how we got here, how easily we were stampeded into panic, how we let the media keep us from letting our kids play with each other and drive us into our houses and give up our most essential liberties - in a matter of days...

4/ "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Those words come from Benjamin Franklin, more than 250 years ago, and they are true now as they were then...

5/ The United States is far from perfect. The Constitution is far from perfect. But it has served us well for a very, very long time, and the way we've forgotten it in the last month should shame us all.