Visiting audio stores?

@tyray I am also curious about MHDT. Some interesting posts on this thread with an OP I started: https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/which-dac-makers-let-you-do-in-home-trial?

I am going to unfollow this thread because while I have many strong feelings and views about politics and this situation, I need something apolitical from Audiogon. My appreciation to those who weighed in on the question, and I'll now stop following this post.

Not to be scary, but we are already becoming saturated here at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor - we will overwhelm ICU bed capacity by next week. My son has COVID-19 as do many of his colleagues in engineering. Please shelter at home.

My wife is the Chief Nursing Officer for a major hospital in a metropolitan area. She’s working her ass-off right now, while I stay home, play with the dogs and become a “full-time” audiophile. Works for me....

While travel bans may mitigate the situation temporarily they cannot stop the inevitable, their sole purpose is to improve the optics.

https://globalnews.ca/news/6546569/china-coronavirus-flights-canada/

While travel bans may mitigate the situation temporarily they cannot stop the inevitable, their sole purpose is to improve the optics.

I've been trying to avoid this thread and any others that deal with the outbreak, and will probably regret stepping in, but...

The month old article you referenced might as well be 100 years old.  Things have been changing at a dizzying pace, and we still don't know what we don't know.

It's not an "optics" problem.  It's a math problem. 

If the spread of the disease isn't slowed down there will be more sick people than there are ventilators and providers.  Our healthcare system runs at close to capacity as it is.  The virus is going to spread until a vaccine is developed, but if it spreads slower, hopefully we won't be putting healthcare professionals in the position of having to make decisions about who gets treatment and who gets left to die in their home.