jducoeur | A good PSA

For those who aren't sick of thinking about it, this 8-minute animation is a pretty excellent overview of the covid-19 situation, including the details of how the virus works inside the human body. (Which is fascinating, but consider this a content warning if you don't want to know precisely why this thing is potentially deadly.)

It covers all the bases, including why social distancing is important, and why washing your hands actually helps. Not much I didn't already know, but it's beautifully assembled and clear, in friendly and plain animation. Possibly worth having in your back pocket when you need to explain things to folks.

And speaking of social distancing, I am proud of my state and its people. I'm occasionally checking the stats, and over the past few days MA has fallen in the rankings of cases-by-state from 4th to 9th. We're a long, long ways from out of the woods, but it is making a clearly enormous difference.

(It occurred to me this morning that, while Baker isn't necessarily the perfect governor, having someone whose background is healthcare administration is probably rather helpful at the moment.)