Our County Health Officer: “[T]ravelling or having guests in your home is not the right thing to do. We need to make sure that this is a social norm...It’s just a fact. This is not the time to engage in those activities. The people that have made those plans need to cancel them.“

“The next month is the crux of the whole pandemic. This is it....This is the time when we have to take extraordinary measures...There are many cases and many more possible cases in our county now...At the same time the capacity of our hospitals is shrinking.“

"The fundamentals have not changed. 40% of people who have this disease have no symptoms at all. They don’t know they have it. Others who contract the disease actually have no symptoms for the first 48 hrs that they are infectious. This is not a disease we can detect by symptoms"

"It is a dangerous situation. It can grow exponentially because no one knows they have it when they spread the disease. With exponential growth we can expect this to double or quadruple the number of cases we have & the number of people being quarantined. We do not have the staff

"Our hospitals do not have the staff to manage to manage that number of cases. We have to behave differently & we have to do it now....This is the crux. This is when it matters...I don’t have a lot of patience with people talking about shaming. It’s just a fact."

#StayHome

““And it’s not just about yourself, it’s the entire community."

"Either travelling or having guests in your home is not the right thing to do...this is a social norm...This is not the time to engage in those activities. The people that have made those plans need to cancel them."