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We Are At War

May we all come together in solidarity. We can. We must. And we will. There have been many things I've wanted to talk about in the past several weeks regarding COVID-19, aka coronavirus.  Many of my thoughts have been echoed by others, or the right advice and perspective were repeated far and wide.  But something I saw tonight was a bit different, and it really moved me.  It was a speech by French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron. We are at war with a disease that will kill millions of Americans unless each one of us takes action in our own daily lives to prevent it. Yes, the threat is real.  No, the scientists are not overreacting.  No, the media is not blowing it out of proportion.  It is impossibe for a city or a state or a nation or a planet to get the response to a pandemic exactly right .  Over-reacting or under-reacting, those are the choices.  The only way to get out in front of something like this, to prevent the worst case scenario, ...