Just not the way we expected to. Washington state is ahead of the rest of the nation.

Gov. Jay Inslee will sign an emergency proclamation Monday, limiting restaurants to take-out and delivery service only and closing all bars, entertainment and recreation facilities in Washington, the governor's office announced Sunday.

The national labor strike, it turns out, will start with those least able to survive it.

There’s no federal requirements for paid sick leave in the U.S., and restaurants and delivery services are notoriously hostile to shift workers calling in sick. In 2015, Whitney Filloon wrote for Eater that a vast majority of food workers will work while they’re ill, with 45 percent saying they “can’t afford to lose pay.” Recently, writer Lauren Hough tweeted about “how many service industry workers will continue going to work” throughout the pandemic because they won’t get paid otherwise;

Those who can't afford it are the ones going on involuntary strike first. many are already self quarantining and we've all seen the food disappear off the shelves.

All for the purpose of stopping an ICU peak. But is that even a thing? ITALY! ITALY! ITALY! is the new Russia when it comes to trying to rationalize this panicdemic. The thing is, Italy is a bad example. They have so many factors working against them. The oldest population in Europe. Bad pollution. And they've been under-funding their universal healthcare system. It's the worst in Europe.

The continuous cuts—to care and to research—are obviously a problem right now,” Casani says. “We were not prepared. We do not have enough doctors for the people. We do not have an organized plan for pandemics.

They don't have enough beds....for the 9,000 diagnosed or the 500 deaths? That tells a different story than "deadly virus overwhelms hospitals" Those numbers say "Italy lacks healthcare workers".

Remember, 10,000 died in the U.S. in January of the normal flu and that's a normal death toll. Yet U.S. hospitals weren't overflowing and peaked out.

Coronavirus has killed 6000 worldwide since December and yet we're to believe that this is overwhelming the systems in Italy, China and elsewhere when those numbers pale in comparison to the deaths from regular flu worldwide?

Are literally dwarfed by those numbers? Then consider these numbers:

In 2017 900,000 people were hospitalized in the U.S. for influenza. 75,000 per month average, but of course, it peaks in certain months so over 100,000 per peak month.

Yet we didn't have any "peak" hospital emergency. We didn't have to "flatten out" the peak to save lives. We had beds. We had doctors, nurses, etc. 80,000 died yet no quarantines, no shut downs, no pandemic scare.

Now about that Italy again. 9000 cases, not 900,000. 500 dead, not 80,000. Yet their medical system totally overwhelmed? My inner skeptic thinks Cointelpro, ie, fake news.

In the end, Coronavirus will turn out to be a big nothingburger. The involuntary labor strike, however....