Unbox Therapy Coronavirus Update

Just wanted to give you guys a quick update as far as what's going on over here at Unbox Therapy Headquarters

You've probably been following the news. Yeah, there's just a lot of stuff going on in relationship to this outbreak, which has now reached North America in a big way

It's a lot of talk about what to do, how to be responsible, how people should be behaving, how isolated individuals should be

Now, I realize just like every topic, there's two sides. In the comments, I'm sure right now there's going to be people that say, look, this is an overreaction

And then there's going to be other people that say that this is warranted. But the official line, we're kind of preparing, bracing ourselves for something bad or worse than it is right now

The advice is to distance yourself socially, that that's sort of the one tool you have at your disposal with this particular outbreak

And trust me, I've been following the news. I understand it's mostly affecting older people, but as a relatively young person, and I'm sure a lot of you are young watching this

you also have to assume some of the responsibility for potentially being asymptomatic and carrying this thing around and delivering it to someone

well, who maybe isn't just old, but might also have some sort of suppressed immune system or other issues that they're dealing with that might make them high risk

I was faced with the decision today I guess this morning what will happen here I mean it a really big space something like 7 square feet So it not top of each other or breathing on each other or even necessarily

within a meter of each other. But I was just sitting there thinking, I have a responsibility

here to make a decision what the next few days or even couple of weeks are going to look like for

people. And if the line is, hey, wherever possible, try not to congregate, try not to be around other

people. And I realize it's not a huge number of people, but I just, I don't know. I felt

I just had a feeling that I should just tell people to stay home, that we can make do

in the meantime, collectively, and maybe set an example. If wherever possible, you can limit

your social contact that maybe you should. Now, look, I have a family. So my level of social

isolation, if I'm coming here to the studio and then just go and going home, I'm seeing them

I'm talking to them. I'm not. Some of you might end up or might might be more isolated than that

And so I was sitting there thinking, well, maybe I should maybe I should just film some videos for those people that are there for everyone who's sitting sitting around

I don't know, man. It's just a really anxious time. Obviously, everybody deals with that a little a little different

But maybe if some of the things from your routine or some of the faces or some of the people you used to watching for example here on YouTube if some of those things pop up it might make this process a little easier It might make you a little bit more comfortable That kind of the idea So I was thinking if I tell the guys to stay home can I still do something Can I still publish some stuff that people might want to watch given the current state of affairs

So I think I found a cool concept, something worth doing. Right now I'm talking on my current daily phone

This is the S20 Ultra. On the front-facing camera, in 4K, it's a useful camera test

And so what I was thinking during this unbox therapy hiatus, I could upload some camera tests each day, a different smartphone

And you guys could then go back and evaluate the differences and we could play around with some of the features

I was just thinking I was pushing that around as an idea inside my head. I was like, that could be cool

And then at the same time, I could provide a kind of casual conversational update like this just about the state of things here locally

So, for example, on my way in today, I'm seeing on the street, there's less people out, but people are still doing some things while they can

Places like New York State, Connecticut, New Jersey, and then places further away like California, they're talking about shutting down a whole place at 8 p.m. tonight

And for up to eight weeks, talking about bars, restaurants, gyms. I saw people at the gym on the way over here to try to get the last workout in There are also rumors possibly in Canada things are going to shut down to that same degree Tim Hortons which is world famous Canadian coffee shop

they decided to just be drive-thru only. The actual store is not open. I think Starbucks is

doing the same thing. A lot of retailers have closed down. And for some reason, people really

want toilet paper. But anyways, these are all stories that you're probably following and they're

going to be different in each community. It's something that I can do in the meantime when I'm

telling the guys to stay home and it's something for you to do to help you stay home because

obviously that's probably what you're doing depending on where you are in the world

Chances are wherever you're watching this from, you've probably been impacted in some way. So it's

just a matter of doing whatever you can. People are going to have different abilities, right

People are going to, it's going to be easier for some people to distance themselves than others

I think it's just a matter of doing as much as you can. Hopefully having something extra to watch might help a little bit

At least that's the idea. So anyway, this was the front-facing camera from the Galaxy S20 Ultra

Maybe the very first camera test. We'll take this out. We'll take this phone out tomorrow to some unpopulated parks

We're going to go places where people aren't. or we're going to keep our distance if we have to

All right