Has started panic buying food (because everyone else it doing it), thinks we will all be shut in our homes, thinks the USA doesn't have enough testing kits (thanks fake news), and that Canadian government run healthcare will handle a WuFlu outbreak better than the USA. Also still thinks most toilet paper is made in China (it's not).

Didn't understand the concept of mobilization of the the USA powerhouse manufacturing capabilities, or the private sector to help people rather than waiting around for the government to set things up. Or that the USA has more intensive care capabilities in our hospitals than Canada. Tried to explain that we don't have to depend on a government-run healthcare sector and that we've already taken steps to close the borders early on (which Canada has NOT done), and with that we likely at least bought time to make sure that what healthcare systems we do have won't get overwhelmed if things get worse. Roommate would rather listen to actual fake news than what I quoted from the near daily press briefings the USA has had regarding the virus.

The only way we'd all be shut in our homes is if the Canadian government healthcare system collapses, which, given that we've all had a glimpse of what happened in Italy, if, Lord forbid, there was an actual outbreak of WuFlu, would be more likely to happen than healthcare systems getting overwhelmed in the USA.

Tried to share what I've seen and heard from friends in Hong Kong, South Korea, and China, who have already dealt with the "panic" time of the virus outbreak. Roommate not interested.

Say a prayer for me, pedes. I already have a low panic/bullsh!t threshold on a good day, and it looks like that threshold is going to be tested in ways hitherto unseen.

Sorry for the rant. Sojourning north of the border has been making me appreciate the USA so much more.