I’ve heard it said that humanity has lost the plot. Here’s where I think we stand.

The Masses found out about some figures last week. Including those with wits but who were relying on their government to inform them that danger was coming.

It’s for later who could have acted sooner and how.

But there are those among The Masses who just found out some basic facts about how many Americans are going to get it and they are going to do some basic math about the number of corpses we’re about to have, and they’re going to look at the stock market, and they’re going to want some cash on hand anyway and some of them will sell.

And the stock market will sink like a stone. It may not stop sinking all week.

That will be Day 1. Markets might even be done trading before noon.

Day 2 is what I expect will be the time Seattle’s hospitals become overwhelmed, as per my first entry, based on comparing our trajectory with Italy. The rest of the country is not far behind Seattle. Every day new reports of overwhelmed hospitals will come in.

That’ll be the news Days 3-5. We’ll get another weekend of increased cases.

At that point all states should have closed their restaurants and bars. Commercial activity will virtually cease except for hurried, furtive trips to grocery stores. (Spread the word of grocery stores providing Senior Citizen hours first thing in the morning when it has been most recently thoroughly cleaned, that’s an excellent idea.)

But the week after that? It’ll just be another week at home.

And we will have entered the Great Lockdown. This will be our normal for a few months. But it will become normal, as all things do if given time.

Humanity has survived worse.

If you feel hopeless, don’t. This is a time to come together as a country. To reconnect with who and what we are.