Stay Safe!!!

There have always been diseases and illnesses circulating since time began, but this is the first time during my life that I have seriously been scared. I remember SARS and H1N1, several kinds of flus, anthrax in the mail, and even once in a town near where I lived people were poisoned with arsenic. Though all of those things were scary, I don't remember ever feeling any personal fear. Some I was too young to really understand and others always seemed so far away, even when they affected people I knew. This time the treat seems very real and very personal. We know this virus is going to circulate all over into every community because it is so very contagious and is being spread by people without any symptoms. Not only does it spread quickly and easily, but it is especially dangerous for people at higher risk: the elderly, people with heart and lung diseases, and people who are immune compromised. Luckily they are saying that the virus is relatively mild for children in most cases as long as they are regularly healthy, but I still worry about Seth. To make it even more fun, my partner has asthma and does not breath well regularly and I along with asthma have lupus which puts me in the category of immune compromised. Both of us have jobs that put us into contact with large groups of the public and neither of us and can afford to not work. Even if I choose to follow best practice and stay home myself, Carroll with still bring me any germs he comes into contact with during the day because neither of us will have any income if we do not work. Basically at this point, I have to make the assumption that I will be sick at some point and hope for the best because there is no way for me to avoid it entirely. I feel like a lot of people are being put in the same position of not having the choice of following the advice of staying home. Because if we do stay home...in a month or two we won't have a home to stay in.