Like ice leaving the lake on its own terms, we'll get through this

Good morning. Hope you're well and staying healthy.
We've never watched spring unfold for such a weeks-at-a-time span at this lake, so it's been interesting to watch the ice leave the surface.
Like the snow around here — I know, not everywhere has had this good fortune — it's been slow, gradual, orderly, noninvasive, calm. No ice piling up (it's happened on a small scale in the past).
It's also interesting, and heartening, to hear more and more birds out and about with each morning. Hope you can hear them in this video.
We're doing well, and staying away from people. No symptoms of any kind. We're grateful, and blessed.

A lot changed in nine hours on a sunny Sunday.

Heard from an old friend last night that a relative of hers has died from COVID-19.
He was 70, and the timeline of his diagnosis and death was much like those of other coronavirus deaths that have been reported elsewhere. Quick, less than two weeks from the first sign of illness.
And he passed away alone in a hospital room, five days after his last phone conversation with his wife.
His family has no idea how he was infected.
That's what we're dealing with these days.
No immunity. No way of knowing. No way of predicting who could be carrying the disease, how and when you could be infected. No real certainty.
Please be serious about this. Please stay home.
At some point — like ice leaving the lake on its own terms — we'll get through this, and it would be great to talk with you all again.
Hang in there.