If Iceland were to have a national slogan, it would be ‘þetta reddast’, which roughly translates to the idea that everything will work out all right in the end.

A lot of places had St. Patrick's Day events planned and in motion last night and then just about everything was shut down.  Places were supposed to close at 5:00 pm on Tuesday.  In a dramatic step to stop the spread of the deadly coronavirus outbreak in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered all bars and nightclubs to shut down at 5 p.m. Tuesday for the next 30 days, and required restaurants to cut their crowd capacity in half.

Last week it was the schools that were closed for a month and colleges around the state are going to computer based classes.

Should you go out?  The answer is increasingly no.  Assume you have COVID19 are asymptomatic and stay home so you don't spread the virus.  Going to the grocery store or the pharmacy and to throw out the garbage is acceptable if the trip is essential.

From the NYT and Albert Camus, The Plague:

"All human beings are vulnerable to being randomly exterminated at any time, by a virus, an accident or the actions of our fellow man."

"Plague or no plague, there is always, as it were, the plague, if what we mean by that is a susceptibility to sudden death, an event that can render our lives instantaneously meaningless."

"Life is a hospice, never a hospital.".