Don't panic; make smart decisions

The one thing I've learned, especially over the past week, is that what I learn today won't necessarily be true the next day or even the next hour or so.

As everybody scrambles to make decisions about how to react to the coronavirus COVID-19 things change on an hourly basis.

Friday afternoon I sat down with Escambia County (Ala.) Circuit Judge Dave Jordan to see what the court system was going to do. At the time they had a court session scheduled to start Monday morning with hundreds of people being summoned to the courthouse for jury duty.

As we talked, I told him I wasn't taking notes bec...