Would it be a good thing if our side was proactive and cancelled any more

[brewens]

large public events? We're seeing enough already that we shouldn't be accused of playing the virus and trying to incite panic, as I thought might happen a week or so ago. They might try, but it won't stick now.

[relayerbob]

1. There have been 470 reported cases so far in the US

Over-reactions are not required.

Washing hands is

[customerserviceguy]

4. If this thing

goes into exponential spread, that 470 will be a trifling figure in only a week.

Washing hands, while important for people who touch a lot of stuff that other people have touched, is mostly a displacement activity, giving people something to do to act like they're protecting themselves, instead of hoarding masks that health-care workers want.

[beachbumbob]

2. too soon to do that

[customerserviceguy]

3. My bet

is that there will be no live audience for the next debate a week from now.

[brewens]

5. I see some value in doing it before Trump does. That will bait him and the crackpot news into

attacking and or ridiculing our guys for it. I think it will backfire on them.