If I had greater insight into the hospitals I'd give it to you. What I can tell you is that everyone has clamped down on the number of acquaintances you can bring into labor and delivery. I can also tell you that this has caused an uptick in calls to us from women who want to transfer their care from hospitals to our birth center. On the one hand, I'm conflicted: we've got carpet FFS and have to buy our disinfection products retail. On the other hand, I see the thinking: sick people aren't coming to birth centers to find out how sick they are. Our naturopaths, who see patients for reasons other than "checking on your pregnancy", have been masked up for two weeks now and wipe down all surfaces in the exam room between patients. We're doing what we can but one of our employees went home today with a sore throat. She's been through some shit lately so I'm more inclined to believe she caught it somewhere else. Whatever I got? I got from a flight from Seattle to Alaska on February 16th.

One of my colleges shut down for a few days and then until the 20th because their nursing program was in and out of Life Care Center on the reg - they had like 60 exposures. The other one shut down for a day for deep cleaning and then reopened. They have, however, closed their food bank. I've heard it suggested that Seattle Public Schools has not closed yet because 13,000 of their 55,000 students are on SNAP and they're worried that those 13,000 students won't get any food if they don't come to school. I've heard it further suggested that NYC public schools aren't closing because fully 113,000 of their students are legit homeless so the whole "your college food bank is unavailable because of pestilence" is just the tip of the Dickensian spear here. Amusingly enough, North Seattle keeps saying "no Seattle Colleges campus has yet shut down because of Coronavirus" because despite the fact that LWTech is a college in Seattle, it's not a "Seattle Colleges" college. Fuckin' ridiculous.

UW has gone remote, and has drive-through testing for their own medical employees. We haven't tried rounding up a CV19 test since we looked into it Wednesday. My understanding is they're easier to get ahold of now for a number of reasons but we haven't tested that hypothesis.

There are no issues buying food whatsoever. Fred Meyer is limiting cold- and flu-related purchases to 5 per customer. I've heard from a Costco employee and a Fred Meyer employee that things like bleach and hand sanitizer and disinfecting wipes are available every morning or every other morning at 6am but there are always people lined up and waiting who purchase to the limit. What's left is taken by online shoppers.

Italy is totally shut down but life goes on, which seems kinda like where this thing is gonna go. I got an email this morning from an Italian manufacturer of machine tools saying

Considering the most recent instructions concerning the spread of Coronavirus COVID-19, HSD Group has enacted a series of measures to guarantee the safety of employees, customers and anyone who interacts with the company, both at the Headquarters and at the Subsidiaries around the world.

From this morning the Italian Government has declared the whole Italian territory as a "Red Zone", that means at risk of infection, thus limiting the movement of people throughout the territory, but with the same provision the Italian Government has kept the possibility for people to go to work, and the goods to move freely, in order not to block production activities.

HSD has also taken extraordinary measures to deal with this situation and minimize the risks for its employees and consequently to give continuity to the supplies for its customers, consequently

from today until 3 April 2020 included, the whole company will observe a timetable continued from 07:00 AM until 07:00 PM by dividing the coverage of this schedule with two groups of employees, the first in the morning (07:00 AM - 01:00 PM) and the second in the afternoon (01:00 PM - 07:00 PM). These two groups of employees will alternate weekly, in order to give continuity to the company activity and to the service to its customers.

We also confirm that our 4 branches HSD Deutschland, HSD Mechatronics Shanghai, HSD USA and HSD Korea are fully operational at regular times, to support and possibly support our customers also in other areas of the world.

Thanks to these actions, HSD has kept constant production levels and order management continues with normality: supplies and shipments of goods are regular.

HSD continues to monitor the development of the situation while the HSD staff remains available for any request.