@giddykitty: Just being honest... the virus likely won't be contained any time soon. There are too many cases in the U.S. for that to happen. The best our government can do is quarantine sick and possibly infected patients to minimize the impact of the virus in the U.S. until a vaccine comes out, which is what they're doing right now. But it's likely in every state at this point.

I know people are hoping that the coronavirus is "seasonal" (i.e., like the flu where it will disappear during spring and summer, but reappear in fall and winter), but Singapore has a huge outbreak and it's summertime there. I just looked up the weather, and it says it's 79F. Plus, there are cases in Hawaii and Florida, where it is also obviously very warm.

My recommendation is to come up with a plan between you and your husband about how you're both going to handle him staying home. And I honestly think he will have to stay home at some point because even big companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. are already telling their employees to stay at home. I mean, I'm not trying to be a Negative Nancy, but I think it's inevitable because many, many companies are starting to follow suit. Even business conferences are being switched to "virtual" (i.e., everything will be done over Skype or some equivalent of that where you can stream the events live).

If your husband makes lots of noise, can you ask him to get headphones? I know that won't drown out his own talking, but it'll at least prevent you from hearing the entire meeting. You can also wear headphones yourself and play some music or something so that you're doing your own thing without bothering anybody.