Don’t panic. But stock up.

Meagan McGovern
5 min readMar 2, 2020

Everything you really need to know about the coronavirus

Yes, you really do need to go out and buy toilet paper and two week’s worth of food. But not because we’re all going to die. Not even because we’re all even going to get sick. You should do it because it’s the best thing you can do for the rest of our society.
You are probably going to get the Coronavirus.
In fact, Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch predicts that in the next year, some 40 to 70 percent of people around the world will be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. He does, however, say that he doesn’t think…

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Meagan McGovern

I’m a writer, homeschooler and cat-herder extraordinaire. I am passionate about clean food, dirty politics, thoughtful parenting, homeschooling and travel.