My workplace has all the people that can teleworking as of now... and may bar entry after monday.

We went on our semi monthly shopping trip to Costco week before last and people were already panic buying then... stocking up on bottled water (if water services go out then we have something more akin to the zombie plague than Coronavirus)

They were buying entire cartfulls of water and toilet paper, sanitizers etc... but oddly they were still stopping for the free samples...

Now the toilet paper shortage has hit Maryland, thankfully we have plenty, and in the event of emergency we stocked up on Ayn Rand books to use. N95 Masks have been of course IMPOSSIBLE to find but we had a few (3) from previous house-work purchased long before the Coronavirus.

I flew last week to see family, only to find out after I got there that the CDC had wanted to advise against the elderly flying, but was silenced by Trump. Since I was visiting my mother I really hope I didn't make a huge miscalculation of the risk. I flew back here Wednesday and of course its hard not to be concerned over every ache and cough, wondering if I picked something up. However, my temperature has consistently been 1-2 degrees below 98.6, so no fever of any sort yet.

We have prepared to spend as long as a month at home. I stopped getting my morning fix of iced coffee at Dunkin donuts... so I get to have the lethargy and headaches even if i don't have the virus.

If we ever start actually testing, the number of confirmed cases will jump orders of magnitude, and that will really crash the markets further.

Perhaps this incompetent performance will shake Trump's supporters... maybe... but one lesson from history that has been repeated over and over is that scared people are more likely to support authoritarians... and society-wide emergencies are wonderful excuses for drastic, unprecedented, draconian actions.