Written five days ago by Laurie Garrett, the woman who wrote the landmark book THE COMING PLAGUE in 1994 and who later won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the Ebola outbreak in the Congo.

Sorry, America, the Full Coronavirus Lockdown Is Coming 🔗 🇺🇸 🦠 🔒 ⬇️

Politicians won’t admit it yet, but it’s time to prepare—physically and psychologically—for a sudden stop to all life outside your home.

Whether you are reading this in your living room in Vancouver, office in London, or on a subway in New York City, you need to think hard, and fast, about two crucial questions: Where, and with whom, do you want to spend the next six to 12 weeks of your life, hunkered down for the epidemic duration? And what can you do to make that place as safe as possible for yourself and those around you?

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