Yes I can say today that I feel a lil better - one because I have literally turned off the tv and turned on the radio to listen to music. And it feels great! I cleaned my house today while listening to the radio and it was sooooo therapeutic. The corona thing I think the media is hyping it up. All we can do is corporately pray together that this plague will be over soon and we can go back to our normal routines.

I fee the same way, I get so anxious when I hear that there are more cases in my area. I barely left my house all weekend as my panic attacks have started to take over. I have mainly health anxiety and am a nurse so this is a very bad scenario for me. I don't know how I will make it back to work knowing that I will be exposed. I have asthma on top of this so I am worried about having complications.

I'm in the exact same boat !!! I can't help but look at it or read about it and all I read seems to be bad. I'm so scared and anxious everyday. I don't want to leave my house. I wish I knew more people who felt like I do or with the same anxious and panicky thoughts. Everyone else in my family seems calm and going about their life while I'm on pause in my room. I'm also sick with a cold (I'm in touch with my doc) so that has me even more worried. I just want it to stop and go back. Seeing the stores empty online really freaks me out. I need a person to go to help calm me down and reassure my mind.

In the same boat as everyone else here! I wrote my own post earlier about my anxieties regarding the virus and it feels good to know Im not the only one. One thing that has really been helping me the past few days is getting outside and going for a walk, even trying yoga since Ive made the decision to start working out from home for awhile. Ive tried staying off my phone and the TV but it sounds like we’re all struggling with that a bit... when youre stuck inside what else is there to do? Hope everyone stays well!

I think it is serious but we need to clarify. Absent people with a serious respiratory condition or the elderly, people seem to do reasonably well. They had a basketball player diagnosed who looked fine.

There was a need for action. In the best case scenario. let 's say precautions are tight, the number of cases can be handled by our medical system, and with hot weather, the number decreases, and a vaccine is found. Weather does seem relevant and the number of cases in Mexico are apparently less than 100. Then absent the inconvenience for a couple of months (not a small thing), the health consequences were not that serious, comparable to a bad flu outbreak.

However if we did nothing, the danger would be that the number of cases could overwhelm our hospital system which would not be good. They are now testing a vaccine and if it works we can be back to normal but the precautions still make sense. While the virus seems a little scary, it really does not seem to bad compared to other outbreaks.