Here’s a link to one of the shorter interviews with Mike Osterholm. https://youtu.be/V1xBiBVH7U4 I also trust a family friend who is an MD and specialize in infectious diseases. I read different news sources with different political leaning including some from francophone countries. That's not about "trust" but rather awareness of what people are being told. My basic orientation is toward math and science, but I'm cautious. Some goverments censor data. In places with limited medical resources and/or populations that are already challenged, cause of death may not be identified accurately or at all. Case maps are probably not entirely accurate, but they're good enough for trend analysis.

Happens to be in my home town of Williamsburg. We are all socially distancing ourselves. No luncheons, no meetings, no Mexican train, no bridge. Hope this helps.

Georgia is approaching a complete shutdown. Even with a state of emergency declared in Toronto, construction sites remain exempted. But the Premier yesterday said that any construction workers who feel unsafe due to COVID-19 should leave. No fun when construction shuts down in the middle. I've been there when clients ran out of money for a month!

mama_goose: Don't fret unnecessarily about your 83 yr old father. If he's in good health, he has a good chance of survival. First, he may not contract the disease at all, and secondly, it is not 100% fatal. That's one of the problems: Some get the disease, recover and did not realize what it was. For those fortunate ones, it often gets passed off as an ordinary flu bug and they have the potential to pass it along. This new virus has the potential to kill if it makes it to the lungs. If your body stops it before it progresses that far, the survival rate is good. In Wisconsin, we have hundreds of verified cases and 4 dead. One of those deaths was a 90 yr old man who was dying and in nursing home care when he contracted the virus. I do not intend to downplay its seriousness; It is a serious disease due to its potential to kill, but I do not think it is as bad as the polio epidemic that swept through this country in the early 1950s. At that time, there was no polio vaccine. Many of those who survived were left with deformities or other weaknesses that persisted throughout their remaining life.