[Stanley Nickels]

My thoughts don't mean a whole lot, but here's what I do know:
1) Therapeutic approaches are showing to work for patients with the disease
2) A vaccine is likely in the next year or so (and hopefully we can get phase 3 trials to vaccinate a lot of at-risk folks, though I'm not sure how you'd do a placebo control in such a trial)
3) The military will not stage a coup d'etat on the citizens of this country. Just won't happen.
4) Nobody wants a full collapse of our economic system, least of all Trump in an election year (I think that's a safe, apolitical statement, right?). Some type of basic income WILL happen, and I'm confident it'll be extended for as long and as often as these quarantines/isolations are necessary.
5) They just imposed a moratorium on evictions through end-April and I also expect that to last a bit longer (at least in some capacity).
6) We are the country best suited for this to happen to, economically-- as selfish as it is, people will not risk losing the US market.
7) Grocery stores are doing okay, albeit struggling to restock after this initial surge of haording. Those stores, and thus their suppliers, are seeing UNPRECEDENTED sales right now (Trader Joe's is considering giving ALL its employees bonuses). The people making the food, moving the food, and selling the food are all still very much in business.
8) Americans-- and people in general-- have made it through WAY worse times... Great Depression, famines... Humans are resilient creatures, it's why we've survived and thrived so long and often through incredibly difficult circumstances.
I have never seen so many people out on our streets as I did today. Lots of smiles and jokes about how crazy this all is (my neighbors had a social distance happy hour, each on their own lawn). You might say that'll change-- but we've gone through worse and not descended into chaos.