Pandemic Peace, March 23rd

Episode webpage: https://chasingbravery.com/new-blog/2020/3/23/suaya8k2xz5mqpw1brg6lvpqqky2gc The National Guard has been activated and Federal disaster declarations announced for California, New York and Washington. Providing additional assistance for those states. New York State now has about 5% of all global cases according to The New York Times. New Jersey has passed California and Washington in number of diagnoses. They join Ohio, Louisiana and Delaware join 4 other states in issuing a stay at home order that effects more than 100 million U.S. residents. The U.S. has more than 35,000 cases. The 3rd most in the world, behind China and Italy. As many are aware, Congress has yet to move forward in passing the economic relief bill. WHERE SENATE NEGOTIATIONS ON THE NEXT COVID-19 RELIEF BILL STAND This evening, President Trump stressed what he called the need to reopen America for business even as he said the government also would continue tackling the spiraling coronavirus pandemic. "We're not going to let the cure be worse than the problem," Trump said. Without speaking about matters I am not well qualified enough to speak enough, I can say that multiple news platforms including CBS, NPR, ABC, and PBS have highlighted medical experts expressing concern about this statement by the president given that all estimates show the spread will be nearing its peak in two weeks. CDC Coronavirus symptom checker: Note: I have tried this self checker “pretending” I was an 85 year old male, a 26 year old female, a 50 year old male and female…and quite honestly there are 2 results you will get when asked about symptoms because the options are “ no life threatening symptoms” and a slew of very scary sounding symptoms. There are no “middle ground” symptoms to pick from, so take that as you will…. My take away is that you will either gain nothing from the self check OR you will be having a life threatening emergency and probably not using the self checker….. CDC SYMPTOM SELF CHECKER Finally…. my quick wellness tip of the day. Right now we are seeing examples of hoarding on all levels. Companies that don’t need to be capping out are…people who don’t need to be hoarding all the paper goods in their town are….and the ultimate effect of this will be the same on different scales. This self serving behavior is understandable…humans try to control what they can in times of great uncertainty….but before you buy out the shelf or get too caught up in a self serving, protect myself mode ….think about what kind if world you want to live in. You may have a months worth of toilet paper in your home, but that could literally be in the expense of a family who has none and has elderly grandparents living in the home and can you imagine the stress of not having basic toiletries in a time like now? So think about how you are responding to this understandable anxiety…..none of us control a lot right now….but we still can be good to one another and step outside of ourselves. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/chasing-bravery/support