I think that is the most interesting thing about this pandemic—it calls for personal responsibility more than anything else.

You can’t look at someone and tell if they have it. We’ve known diseases/viruses like that before, but now it’s more in your face, so to speak.

So, containing this virus requires you to care for yourself for everyone else. Yes, if you already have it, so what? But YOU a could prevent others from being affected by making good choices.

That’s what the testing, the mask, and social distancing are for—not to keep you safe from others, but to keep others safe from you. And to hope that they’re all thinking the same.

And the reason THIS country is failing at this, true to form, is because Americans are selfish. It will take a radical shift for folks to start acting in the way that’s best for everyone else and to trust that they’ll be protected by that grace on the other end. Radical.

I thought of this last year when I realized that staying home when I have a cold isn’t for me—I can work through anything. It’s for my office mates. It’s so that I don’t get them sick, so they don’t get their families sick. This is that on a larger and more fatal scale.

I came in from the balcony to put my phone away, but before I go...isn't it interesting that the way forward is love and not fear?

Your fear of other people isn't going to keep you at home because you think you're invulnerable. Your love of other people--choosing to lead by example and protect them from the possibility that you can harm *them*...that's what will save us. Love and not fear.