Practicing good hygiene, plus social distancing and abiding by issued health guidelines are sufficient actions by the people in fulfilling a duty in the battle against the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). That is the role of the people - we the people.

Government's role as guarantor of the public health, therefore charges to the government, the necessary supply of arms - PPE's, medical equipment and testing as its responsibility in the fight against the deadly pathogen.

So, if all the people continue to play their roles, then government should be compelled to complete its function and role to safeguarding the health of the people.

As many people in the United States (US) and elsewhere adapt to and cope with the new norm of social distancing, it would appear that most people have come to terms with the seriousness of the dire conditions posed by the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

At the time of writing, worldwide COVID-19 infections number over 760,000 with more than 36,000 deaths. In the US, infections number 155,000 with over 2,800 deaths.

Stay at home guidelines from the US Federal government have been extended to April 30.

Today's note is brief and personal, very personal, yet I feel compel to scribe - to scribe into the annuals of time, just a sliver of a simple account of an unprecedented time that forever will be etched into the history of generations henceforth:

The month of March has, across my now lengthening years, never failed to deliver the best of times and the most testy of times. And while this could readily be said of almost anyone and of almost any other month of the calendar, March's gifts of weather and seasonal alterations, gives it a permanence of, and for change whether or not it "comes in like a lion and leaves like a lamb" or vice-versa.

Undoubtedly, this time of the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, represents an abnormal reality for most people effected in some form or another by the pesky and deadly pathogen.

As this pandemic transcends nation to nation, city to city, town to town and community to community infecting hundreds of thousands of people, a new normal has emerged that conflicts with what was regarded as normal life just a few days ago. Worldwide infections now stand at 558,502 with 25,251 deaths. Here in the United States (US), infections have surpassed the total of any other country numbering 91,255 with 1,353 deaths.

CNN has reported that amid a video-G20 Summit on COVID-19 between world political leaders, the United States (US) - the wealthiest nation on the Planet, via the Department of State, is asking it's global diplomatic missions to seek from their host nations any excess medical items to help fight the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). 

As the wealthiest nation seeks to source much needed medical gear from others, a dire picture of the scope of the spreading COVID-19 pandemic, is being manifested in New York City, New York, where disheartening pictures have shown medical staff forced to wear garbage bags as protective gear amid a chronic shortage of PPE's for front line caregivers.

My two younger sons, along with millions of other students in the United States (US) and across the globe, including Canada, the United Kingdom (UK), the European Union (EU), China and elsewhere, remain out of school and many have been scheduled into distance-learning for the first time ever because of stay-at-home orders across multiple communities to wrestle the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). 

Parents are working from home, or sadly laid off from work because of COVID-19. Supermarkets remain under stocked.

The evolution of the human species throughout the ages has never been voided of struggles. From competition to survive, class and race struggles, war, pestilences, economic turbulences and environmental catastrophes, humanity has managed to weather them all to arrive at this time - this 2020.

The resolve of the human race for continuity has triumphed over many hurdles and dangers not by wishing them away, but by applying systematic, scientific and international responses.

Therefore, today, as the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to plague the globe inflicting 284,000 people with the disease thus far while killing 11,868; it is paramount that the clear and present danger posed by the pathogen be recognized and accepted as being real.

To all friends, countries and peoples - victims of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), I bid you a speedy recovery to good health and to normal life. And to those who have died, I extend my deepest sorry to your family and loved ones.

As my family and I prepare and await the mathematical surety of greater adverse impacts from the pandemic here in Washington, D.C., United States (US), we do so fearlessly, yet, not stupidly. We continue to follow proper hygiene regiments implored upon me as a boy - washing hands, etc.

I wish to relay my sincere thoughts for good health as well as for full and speedy recovery to all past, present and future victims of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

I pray that you may muster the strength to continue in good health as well all harbor the inclination to survive and to defeat COVID-19. 

Humanity has conquered many threats and assaults to arrive at this 2020, thus COVID-19 should be construed as a test of the resolve toward the continuity of the human species. 

Therefore, together as a national and international community, we the people hereby must endeavor to have empathy and compassion for one another as we confront this viral pandemic. May God Bless us all.

The World Health Organization (WHO)  affirmed what many people have been claiming for many weeks by today's declaration of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), a pandemic - acknowledgment that the pathogen could effect every person in the entire world.

With the WHO declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic, the international health authority  called on world governments to change the course of the outbreak by taking "urgent and aggressive action", the BBC-News reported.

Director General of the WHO, Dr.