NannyCast 38: The Novel 2019 Coronavirus and the Nanny  // download episode // subscribe to NannyCast //  Wherein NannyCast gives you a timely episode that addresses some of the issues in the nannying world that came about due to the virus formerly known as The 2019 Novel Coronavirus. Additional Show Notes:This Podcast Will Kill You | Coronavirus Episode Ologies | Virology f. CoronavirusesDaily Structure for Trying TimesNannyCast 21: Working While SickNewborn Care Solutions // Announcement of Professional Development SeriesinterNational Nanny Training Day 2020 Update Transcript after the break. [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 01] We live in unprecedented times. While we here at NannyCast strive to make evergreen podcasts that will be useful for now and forever, we are going to interrupt our regular pattern by making a special SARS-2/COVID-19 podcast. Because we have a lot of nannying issues related to this outbreak. [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 02] Will this ever be useful again? We hope not. Or at least not for at least another hundred years. I’m looking at you Spanish Flu of 1918 and your hundred years ago-ness. So before you write to [email protected] with your complaints that this information is out of date because you are listening to it in 2025 and we recorded it in 2020, just know that we know it will be and we are glad you are listening to our backlog of episodes. Let’s begin with some virology and epidemiological basics. First of all: What is coronavirus? What is the 2019 novel Coronavirus which has recently been named SARS 2? What is COVID 19? How do we keep all these words straight? To answer these and other questions, we have the following guest podcasts popping in with what they know. As always, links to each of their entire episodes will be available in our show notes for this episode over at NannyCast.com. Let’s let them introduce themselves. [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 03] The Erins behind This Podcast Will Kill You are disease ecologists and one is even an epidemiologist. [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 04] Still they are radical experts with expert sauce on top and more than qualified to talk about all these terms and give us some general background information. But also we have [Ologies Clip 01] [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 05] Now, since they recorded that podcast, the 2019 novel coronavirus strain has been named. [Ologies Clip 02] [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 06] COVID-19 is what happens when you actually get sick with SARS-2. As in have symptoms and that lung infection they mentioned. It is the disease. You can be infected with SARS-2, bopping around your daily life, virally shedding, and never have a fever, no cough, no nothing. That’s called being asymptomatic.  [This Podcast Will Kill You Clip 07] And because  [Ologies Clip 03] spreading SARS-2 to all the good little boys and girls without even having a sniffle. This is why you wash your hands even though you don’t feel sick. This is why you cover your sneeze even though you are sure the sneeze came from a charge blowing pepper up your nose. This is why you wave at Grandma instead of picking her nose for her. Because you could be transmitting and have no earthly idea. Sharing is caring, but sharing SARS-2 is NOT caring. [Ologies Clip 04] Why are we at home? Why are the kids at home? Why are the bosses at home? Why is the house so crowded that it is maddening? Why are the parks and playgrounds and libraries closed? [Ologies Clip 05] The short answer is because sharing isn’t caring. And you know what keeps people from sharing? Being caged. Caged in their homes. Now, while there are selfish idiots who know they have COVID-19, are symptomatic with it, and still decided to leave their houses and go to restaurants or concerts or the grocery store where they grossly coughed and sneezed all over the loose broccoli in the produce section, there are far more asymptomatic carriers who are going out in public and touching door handles or