"Stay at Home" Order Is the Right Terminology

This wording keeps it from being confused with other terms that have been tossed out.

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Leave it to California to get it right. The governor of California ordered his 40M citizens (other than essential personnel) to "Stay at Home!" A good call and timely at this point in the crisis. 

I wish I had seen or read his announcement before I was on King 5 TV, the NBC affiliate here in Seattle. I would have used that term versus the several that have been tossed out by different leaders telling people to remain at home.

I expounded on my reasoning in an earlier blog post, Lock It Down. Lock It All Down Now!

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Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.