But masks are not enough.

Let’s be honest, some have started to let our guard down. I know I sometimes have. We’re tired. We want to go back to the way things were – and that’s very understandable. But when our guard is down, we're playing Russian Roulette with our lives.

Good decisions will protect the economy and save lives. Reckless ones will hurt and kill.

Ask yourself this: Will the family reunion be worth it if your grandmother tests positive and dies? Will the neighborhood cookout be worth it if your neighbor ends up alone, on a ventilator, in ICU? Will the play date be worth it, if the kids can’t go back to school in the fall?

We’re all tired of being cooped up. I know your kids want to be with their friends. But, what’s better - knowing you did all you could to keep your family and neighbors safe and our economy open -- or taking risks that lead to illness, death, and another economic shutdown?

Don’t we all want to be around to see future children and grandchildren not yet born? To attend their Baptisms? To watch our kids and grandkids graduate? To attend their future weddings?

This virus will end. And don't we all want to be around when it does? So we can enjoy life, enjoy our families, and enjoy our friends. There will be so many things we can do in the future. We just have to get through this.

None of us can do this alone. In words often attributed to Ronald Reagan, “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” These are once-in-a-hundred-years sacrifices -- short-term inconveniences, for long-term freedoms.