 So I saw in the news today that the beaches in Florida are still open and there's spring breakers down there You know people are out the restaurants are open and everyone's out there in the sand having fun at the beach and I'm just like Really? I mean are you for real? Like what exactly are you thinking? Come on, man No, that's not how this works So all these people are on the beach and they're interviewing some of these people and these kids are like, oh, you know I'm I don't worry if I get corona. I'm here to have fun spring break Whoo, and honestly, I blame the governor of Florida. I mean shut down the beaches guys Really? I mean these kids they're stupid, right? They don't know any better You're supposed to be the responsible adult out here. So take action So there's a reason why I'm doing this whole social distancing thing, right? The point of this is I mean look We don't have a great treatment or a vaccine against this virus. Okay, we know we're all gonna get infected We may not be able to sort of stop the absolute number of people who get infected But we can slow down how it spreads the rate it spreads and distribute these infections over time Okay, that's the whole concept of flattening the curve. All right, so you may have seen this graphic before right? This is two different scenarios one is where everybody gets infected sort of the same time And you see this big spike in the number of people infected at the same time So what happens a large chunk of those people are gonna require hospitalization, right? Even though the death rate is low overall. Okay, probably well under 1% The hospitalization rate is higher than one would think so a lot of people are getting admitted to the hospital And a lot of these people need ventilators and oxygen support ICU care And there's only so many ventilators and ICU beds in the nation, right? So if everybody gets sick at once what's gonna happen the hospitals are overwhelmed the healthcare systems are overwhelmed We're already overwhelmed. We don't even have masks. The CDC literally just said if we don't have masks use a bandana Are you kidding me CDC a bandana against a killer virus? No, thanks So forget about the death rate worry more about sort of the hospitalization rate If all those young folks out there look just because you're young and the reports are telling you Oh only the older and sicker people die that does not mean you're not gonna get sick In fact, as of yesterday, and I say, you know, this is changing every day these numbers as of yesterday March 17th the CDC reported that 20% of the people who were hospitalized were between the ages of 20 and 44 20% Right, that's you know, not really a small number Now if you can imagine most of those patients probably got better and left the hospital But if the system's overwhelmed some of those people in the future may not get better And maybe even die because the hospitals can't take care of them So this is why we are trying to do social distancing. This is why we're trying to flatten the curve And look this virus is very contagious and very effective. There's one study out of Germany that's not peer reviewed yet but their data is saying that the Concentration of the virus in the nearest for peak concentration in COVID-19 is a thousand times more than SARS a thousand times Not sure you may be thinking well, I'm young. I'm gonna be fine. I'm washing my hands I'm not gonna come in contact with sick people But look when you leave your house think about all the things that you touch you, you know You get in your car you open your car door you touch your steering wheel Okay, maybe you grab a cup of coffee you exchange money your credit card with other people Okay, you're walking by and just walking through the store your jacket's gonna brush against something Maybe you're gonna pump some gas. Okay, again, you're touching multiple things when you're pumping your gas And you're gonna go somewhere open the door. That's a doorknob, right? You're gonna go in Maybe you're gonna order some food. Maybe you're gonna get a drink. You're gonna grab other Objects maybe touch other surfaces and in between all this, you know This stuff can be transferred to your clothes even right? So even when you come home after all this and maybe you wash your hands thoroughly you maybe have viral Particles sitting around you. So anyway, there's a reason we're telling you to stay at home Please stay at home if you're not thinking about yourself think about your loved ones your parents your grandparents and other people that You may get infected. So please bring breakers Stay the fuck home