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Countries around the world are in lockdown. From cruise ships quarantining passengers to our U.S. national treasure – Tom Hanks and Idris Elba – testing positive for the Coronavirus.
Now – the World Health Organization (WHO) is saying that COVID-19 is a pandemic.
According to the WHO, a pandemic is "an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people.
Extreme measures have taken effect with President Donald Trump suspending travel from Europe for 30 days that started at midnight last Friday.
We will be suspending all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days. The new rules will go into effect Friday at midnight. These restrictions will be adjusted subject to conditions on the ground.
During Wednesday morning's press briefing – Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House's coronavirus response coordinator made a plea to Millennials to stay home and do their part in ‘Social Distancing’ so our generation can help stop the spread of the Coronavirus.
Dr. Deborah Birx spoke to the media about the increasing cases of young adults being hospitalized with COVID-19 in France and Italy stating:
There may be a disproportional number of infections among that group. So again, I’m going to call on that generation [Millennials] … we cannot have these large gatherings that continue to occur throughout the country for people who are off work.
Dr. Birx is calling for OUR generation to take the lead by letting the youth of America know that we are “the core group that will stop the virus”.
New guidelines call for all Americans to avoid social gatherings of more than 10 people. This came less than 24 hours after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested gatherings of more than 50 people should be avoided for two months.
President Donald Trump has suggested that the crisis could last until July.
The US Surgeon General Jerome Adams called into "Good Morning America" Thursday morning to talk about the coronavirus pandemic calling on social media influencers such as Kylie Jenner with her 166 MILLION FOLLOWERS to understand the seriousness of the disease.
In Florida – Millennial spring breakers are refusing to let the coronavirus ruin their celebration defying the federal governments order to stay home.
Now – Florida Governor is calling for Beach Closure in every county within the Sunshine State.
Let’s NOT be dumbasses during these critical times – just look at the numbers in Italy.
On Wednesday – Italy records the highest one-day death toll of any country since the first case was detected in China. And now the Civil Protection Agency announces 475 deaths as infections shoot up by more than 4,000 in a day.
To keep everyone informed around the world from avoiding the endless reads of PDF documents – a 17-year-old Gen Zer (Zoomer?) Avi Schiffmann created a website called nCoV2019.live
Schiffmann started the website in late December before the coronavirus had been detected outside of China. The website now receives user traffic with visits by tens of millions of people from around the globe. The resource updates every minute or so by pulling information from the WHO, CDC, etc.
Now – the NBA season is suspended after Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell tested positive for the Coronavirus last week.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver spoke this week believing if it weren’t for the actions of the league to suspend the season – the United States wouldn’t have taken COVID-19 seriously.
Silver responded with the following:
People were not taking these protocols all that seriously until the NBA did what it did”.
Here, I fixed it: “People were not taking these protocols all that seriously until Rudy Gobert got what he got.
WHY has it taken an NBA player testing positive to make Americans PANIC about the coronavirus?
The spread of the disease is canceling, postponing, and rescheduling events to avoid the COVID-19.
College tournaments are following the same precautions to suspend the season until further notice including the NHL, MLS and MLB.
College campuses across the country are transitioning classes to online courses – music events such as Coachella postponing till October – AND – Broadway being forced to close their doors.
In 2014 – ex CEO of Microsoft Bill Gates spoke at TED to discuss the horrific global outbreak of Ebola.
At the time – Bill Gates warned the world that we should be more prepared for the next outbreak suggesting the following:
First, we need strong Health systems in poor countries. That’s where a mother can give birth safely, kids can get all their vaccines, but also where we can see the outbreak very early on. We need a medical reserve corps: Lot of people who have the training and background who are ready to go with expertise. And then, we need to pair those medical people with the military taking advantage of the military’s ability to move fast, do logistics, and secure areas. We need to do simulations. Germ games – NOT War games so that we see where the holes are. The last time a Germ game was done in the United States was back in 2001 and it didn’t go so well. So far, the score is Germs: 1 | People: 0. Finally, we need lots of advanced R&D in areas of vaccines and diagnostics.
Should Americans start to PANIC?
In 1969 – NASA was worried that germs or diseases that might've hitched a ride with the capsule could unleash a lunar plague on Earthlings. When Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins came back from the mission landing on the moon – NASA immediately placed the crew in anti-contamination suits and were transported to Houston spending 3-weeks in a converted Airstream trailer called the Mobile Quarantine Facility.
Buzz Aldrin advice for Americans is "Lying on my ass and locking the door," he replied, without hesitating.
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins told CNBC on Tuesday that the company’s video conferencing platform Webex saw a surge in user activity since the beginning of the month with 5.5 billion meeting minutes in the first 11 business days of March.
Users around the world are converting to virtual meetings to combat the coronavirus. In a recent report from the FDA announced on Thursday – it could take a year to create a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.
Get comfortable and hunker down – or as Buzz said—get on your ass and lock the door!—the COVID-19 isn’t going away anytime soon.
