It’s been a long time since it all began. It started slow, a few people sick with some unknown disease back in China. The news would show the citizens there walking around in their makeshift or painter's masks. You felt for them, but we couldn’t help breathing a sigh of relief that it was them and not us.

Eventually, as the illness spread ripping through their country, governments all over the globe began taking action in an effort to keep it from their borders. Here at home, the effort was small...