Venting our fears and concerns with others can reduce their intensity. Others may provide support and care and soother our negative feelings. We can do the same in turn for them.

We learn we are not alone and may learn how others cope with their frustration and fear, which can help us adopt those methods.

Venting should not become a habit as it won't fix the problem. When to stop negative emotions:

• When venting becomes the main coping style cause delays in adaptive action.
• When sharing with others stresses them.
• When you don't feel better, and one or both of you feel worse.
• Young children are not there to listen to our problems, and their job is not to soothe us.
• Talk to your doctor if you experience signs of clinical depression (depressed mood, low energy, poor or increased appetite, insomnia, and poor concentration).

• Social distancing is a slew of tactics meant to keep people at a six feet distance from each other to keep droplets from an infected person's nose or mouth from landing on another person.
• Quarantine is restricting the movement of, or isolating, people who might have been exposed to an infection but who aren't sick.
• Isolation is separating people with confirmed or probable infections from other healthy people.
• Lockdown is a term used by public health officials or lawyers to refer to anything from mandatory geographic quarantine to non-mandatory recommendations to shelter in place, to anything in between.
• Cordon sanitaire is the restriction of movement in and out of a region or city.
• Shelter in place is an order requesting people to stay at home, except for trips to the grocery store, pharmacies, and other essential errands.

• A ventilator is a machine that assists a patient in breathing when they have trouble breathing on their own.
• PPE (Personal protective equipment), such as masks, gloves, face shields, and other gear that keeps health care workers from catching an infection.
• A respirator is a face mask that seals around the mouth and filters out particles from the air before they are breathed in.
• Surgical mask or face mask are loose-fitting masks that don't filter out all the particles but stop a wearer from spreading droplets of contagion when they sneeze or cough.

There is an urgent need to socially distance ourselves as early as possible to slow the spread of the virus and flatten the curve. 

This becomes more and more important as infected people are showing mild  (or zero) symptoms, while still being able to pass on the infection to others. This makes being close to any person a potentially lethal mistake.

In these times of uncertainty, when the whole world is in uncharted territory, we need to be psychologically and emotionally together in spite of being physically apart.

With unclear instructions, ambiguous information and a possible lack of resources, it is easy to feel helpless, and therefore crucial to activate the collective healing capabilities of our communities.