If you have employees, do what you can so they can do the same. Avoid social events and public gatherings, work from home if possible.

Practice social distancing: as much as possible, stay away from people outside of your family.

We realize this well-being and fight this virus by the choices we make right now. As Zeno famously said, “Well-being is realized in small steps, but it is no small thing.” No one individual can accomplish this by themselves, but each of us, acting rightly, collectively, can make a big difference. And to prevent unnecessary overloading of medical professionals, emergency services, airlines, and other critical infrastructure, so that the people who actually need it can access it. To prevent the unnecessary spreading of the virus. To slow the spread of the virus until our hospitals can handle them. Stay at home even if you don’t feel sick.

Don’t do things that benefit you, at the expense of others. Wash your hands often, cover your nose when you sneeze, avoid large public gatherings, cancel unnecessary travel and work meetings. That means: Keeping up to date with the latest advice from the World Health Organization (and then actually following it!). What matters is not what other people are doing or have done, but what you do. What you can control, as always, is how you respond. Neither will sticking your head in the sand and pretending it’s “not that bad.” All those are wasting your time that could be spent saving your life and others. It only distracts you from the many tasks at hand. Cursing the origin of the virus, being racist, perpetuating conspiracy theories, and hoarding toilet paper will not save you. No amount of yelling at the TV will make it go away.

If it isn’t where you live, there is a good chance it will be soon. What better opportunity to practice this “chief task in life” than the one we’re currently facing? COVID-19 is here. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…” - Epictetus, Discourses, 2.5.4–5 “The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. What we have influence over and what we do not. The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t.

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