Trump bans nearly all travel to and from Europe. The NBA suspends its season and Tom Hanks comes down with coronavirus.

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All righty. So last night, President

Trump basically said to coronavirus, I'm in control here and coronavirus said, do you feel in control?

So things are not going great out there with the coronavirus. The big problem, of course,

continued lack of information. The testing kits are not widely available. We just don't know

how many people in the United States actually have coronavirus. We don't even know how many people abroad

have coronavirus. What we do know is that there are certain measures that have been taken.

The harsher the measures, it seems, the faster the coronavirus is brought under control. This is

true in Wuhan. It was true in South Korea, where you've seen a significant bending of the

curve, that is what people are calling it. the curve being the number of people who are infected and then the number of people who are dying. This obviously means that people are now getting increasingly serious and cautious about going to wide-scale public events. Not that if you're young and you go to a big public event, you're going to die, but that if you go to a public event, you may become a carrier or transmitter to somebody who is more vulnerable, somebody with a pre-existing condition, somebody who doesn't have a strong immune system, cancer patients, leukemia patients, people who are older, all of this is deeply frightening. I mean, there's no other way to put it. You look at the news, it's hard not to be scared. And the reason it's hard not to be scared is when you see Italy shutting down every public space, like all public spaces, except for grocery stores and pharmacies.

No church service. It's hard not to be scared. And the reason it's hard not to be scared is when you see Italy shutting down every public space, like all public spaces, except for grocery stores and pharmacies.

No church services going on in Italy.

No stores open in Italy.

When you see Israel shutting down not only all travel, but all public events, over 100 people.

When you see people trying to shut down public events in Washington State, obviously, all of this is predicated on the notion that coronavirus is easily transmitted, which as far as we know is true,

and also that coronavirus is a lot more deadly than the flu, which as far as we know is also true,

but it does differ based on age bracket. It is irresponsible reporting to suggest that every

person who gets coronavirus is equally likely to die of it or experience significant ramifications

from coronavirus. The younger you are, the better chance you have of recovering from this. And

even if you're older, the majority of the people who are getting it are indeed recovering.

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