Welcome to Rates and Beryl's episode number 77.

Derek Van Riper here with Enoseres. It is Thursday, March 12th, 2020.

We've reached a very strange place, I think, just based on recent news events that we're seeing, of course,

as it pertains to the coronavirus, COVID-19, the impact that's clearly going to have

on everybody's lives.

And frankly, I think it's just something we're going to talk about for a while on this show

and we'll see where things go.

Because, you know, there's really been nothing in our lifetimes that has reached this level in America that I can recall.

And I think of like H1N1 and some of the other outbreaks that have happened in our lifetime.

I don't recall the level of response from professional sports and other walks of life getting to this point when those outbreaks

occurred.

No, and over the next week or so, you know, I've got a friend who's a doctor in Seattle and

he's in quarantine and his mother's in the hospital.

And I think over the next week or so, everyone's going to have a story like that, if not closer.

So it's a difficult time. And I think what's even weirder and more difficult about this,

at least in our space, and I hate to be to navel gaze, but, you know, we are who we are.

Is that a lot of times when there's something difficult going on,

internationally or nationally, we turn into sports to not think about it or to unify,

to move on.

There's something about the way sports seem to have been played forever, you know,

and that we keep the records of them and we just kind of assume they will always be there.

You know?

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