Hey, Lissa. Hey, Sam. Are you ready? I am so ready. Just got a big ol' stack of notes.

I would say I am alert, not anxious. Okay. Okay.

So today for today's podcast, I was a little bit nervous coming into this like thinking about

talking about this topic because it is so, gosh, I don't know. It's criticized and it's also like people who are talking about it are being, what's the word?

Like, causing hysteria? Yeah, well, not even them causing hysteria, but they're being accused. Sorry.

Accused of fear mongering and stuff like that. And so I kind of wanted to come on here and do our part because through my research,

the biggest thing that the World Health Organization is saying is to educate with reliable information. So what I'm talking about is why we titled this the elephant in the room because it is, is COVID-19, which is a coronavirus, which I'm sure everybody knows about something about it,

because it's a pandemic, which literally means worldwide. So I wanted to talk about it. And all of the information that I'm going to cite is directly from the World Health Organization.

And I do have a little bit from Canada.com, I think it is, or Canada.org or something like that. So none of it from news outlets. And then obviously, I said, and I do will put in like our, our just like two cents, which is obviously, you have to take it with a grain of salt because it's just opinion and not fact.

And as usual, I will quote Twitter.

So before we kind of get started, I want to say as well, even though I'm saying that this is reliable information, it's from the World Health Organization, it's still up to every one of us to search out and seek out that information ourselves.

Because that's the only way that you can fully rely on the information, the World Health Organization put out a virtual conference today, actually, that is where I got most of this information from. And yeah, you can watch it. It's available to you as well.

And it's important to note that today is March 13th, and that's important because all of the information that I'm citing today is relevant as of today because this virus is like spreading so rapidly changing every day.

Yeah, it's important to note that today is March 13th. And so that is when this information is relevant.

Let's dive in.

Okay, I'm like kind of nervous because I'm like, I know you're really got fucking.

You know it's thecker of this podcast. So I want to start off by like why I already started off, but I want to start off this part by saying that I am not panicked.

Okay, because a lot of this is going to be very like serious, but that's because we need to be taking it seriously, but also not panicking. And why I said like alert not anxious, I was watching Dr. Mike on YouTube, who I really like, I like his content, I find him to be a reliable source, obviously not as reliable as who.

And by who I mean world health organization.

The who? The best.

So yeah, he said to be alert and not anxious, which I think he actually might have cited from the world health organization, but don't quote me on that.

But that's the thing is to remember that like though this is a pandemic, I like to focus on the why behind things because then it becomes less scary.

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