I wouldnt pin on being American. Humans have bullshittted themselves into thinking they were the masters of their our destiny. The only destiny that is promised is they will die. The asshole next to me thinks he will live forever because he jogs. Let me ask you something, when is the last time you saw a jogger smile? NEVER. Joggers will die with the rest of us. Most likely they will die it will have nothing to do with Coronavirus. It really reflects the non-rationality of humans themselves.
Yes, but this isn't the first time we've run into this. To put things in perspective of how ridiculous we've become in panicking on this... From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million) in the U.S. , 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus. That was one year with the Swine Flu (which came from pigs, eh), and if those numbers were making the rounds right now people would be killing themselves in end of times fashion. No, this stupidity is being driven (or was being driven) by something beyond the virus concern.
Before the conspiracy tinfoil hat wearers get too far gone: The COVID-19 outbreak caused by the spread of the virus SARS-CoV-2 is a product of natural evolution, scientists conclude in a correspondence piece published in Nature Medicine.
Time to kick out da cat? “SARS-CoV-2 seems to have an RBD that binds with high affinity to ACE2 from humans, ferrets, cats and other species with high receptor homology7.” 7. Wan, Y., Shang, J., Graham, R., Baric, R. S. & Li, F. J. Virol.https://doi.org/10.1128/JVI.00127-20(2020).
I don't know, I saw another report that said COVID can only transmit human to human so your animals are not a risk to you.
I have no problem social distancing from humans, the greater the distance the better. My dog and cat, not a chance. I die, I die, they'll be in my lap.