Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

I went for another walk this morning with a different friend, and we did an admirable job of staying six feet apart, with her ahead and me behind.  She has a tricky problem, because a university student from Germany is staying in their guest room, and now the girl is aimless, with no studies, no travel, and no guidance.  My friends would like her to leave, partially because she is young and still in crowds of other students and not taking seriously the shelter in place order.  And it sounds like if she doesn't go back to her family in Germany soon, she will not be able to leave, which saddles my friends with a responsibility they don't want.  I see that 40% of the Corvid 19 cases are young people between twenty and forty, so there is a substantial risk.  She is supposed to talk to her parents today, and hopefully they will urge her to return home, but they are probably fearing the long airplane ride, and perhaps testing and isolation after she lands.  It's wrenching, these decisions that must be made when so much about the virus is unknown.  We do the best we can in the moment.