Keep up your resolve!

This is exhausting but we've got it. Please keep up your resolve. I am posting this quote again tonight. We must pay attention to what is happening in the USA. We must take heed. My heart aches for that beautiful country. It is an utter lack of leadership that has left them exposed. You are being led well. I will say that again, you are being led well. Let's be smart and follow that lead.

Your job is so simple. Stay home. Essential trips only. I believe that a complete shut down will be necessary. The list of 'essential businesses' is long. When our leaders shorten that list to the bare minimum, be grateful, not afraid. That is what is coming next. China and South Korea beat the virus just weeks ago. The number of new cases each day in these countries is very low and well within the ability of their health care systems to manage. They have provided the rest of the world with a strategic plan that will end the pandemic.

WE CAN WEATHER THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THIS SELF ISOLATION BECAUSE WE ARE DOING THIS AS AN ENTIRE COUNTRY. ALL OF US. TOGETHER WE HAVE IMMENSE POWER, IMMEASURABLE POWER.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the World Health Organization's director general, said Wednesday that staying home buys time and reduces pressure on health systems.

That's step one in the strategic plan, the step you are responsible for:
Stay home, stay 6 feet away from others when in public, wash your hands for 20 seconds in warm, soapy water if you have touched any public surface. And remember that 80 % of people who become infected recover well without the need for a hospital admission. Be of good cheer even when it feels like that is impossible.

Step two of the plan:
"Aggressive measures to find, isolate, test, treat and trace the contacts of people who test positive." That is the job of your governments both provincial and federal and your front line healthcare workers. Help is on it's way in the form of more testing kits and more personal protective equipment, vital to those on the front lines.

Stay strong folks. Take care of your neighbours and those in need and thank you for taking care of your medical team. We feel your support and it keeps us strong!

Keep this in mind: "If you can envision a world where we all stay in the same place, six feet away from everybody else, then the virus would die itself out. The outbreak would end."

Please share this widely. Thank God we can be so connected!