Let’s all take a deep breath, shall we? Yes, the coronavirus is serious — just how serious has yet to be determined — but use the good sense God has given you and we will get through it. I promise.

My brother reminded me recently that we faced a somewhat similar situation decades ago with the spread of polio and the uncertainty and fear that insidious disease brought. At its peak in the 1940s and 1950s, polio would paralyze or kill over half a million people worldwide annually.

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