Earlier this week one of the most respected physicians on these islands warned "divergent approaches" within Ireland could lead to more deaths north of the border.
Professor Gabriel Scally, the Belfast-born president of the Royal Society of Medicine's epidemiology and public health section urged Stormont to follow the south's lead on testing.
The Irish government has set up a network of community test centres to identify people with the virus and also isolate those in contact with them.
Testing in the north is largely restricted to critical hospital patients and key healthcare workers and even they are struggling to be tested.
I know a number of people showing serious signs of the virus, some so ill they can barely lift their head.
They have not been tested and the only advice given is to stay at home, self isolate and take paracetamol. Their family members have also not been tested.
Telling people to self isolate in their own home is all well and good for those with space and two bathrooms, but the reality for many is living in small cramped houses or flats, it's simply impossible.
We have so far no idea how widespread this virus is, because the numbers tested remain so low and are not a true reflection of the scale of the pandemic.
In the same week a poll for LucidTalk found that nationalists are almost twice as likely as unionists to believe government action has been "too slow".
We have also heard of differences of opinion within the executive.
Some ministers may have thought when they were appointed that they were set for two years of a big salary for cutting ribbons and having pictures taken shaking the hands of the great and the good.
But things got real very quickly and this is a chance to show who has what it takes and who is bluffing their way.
Sectarianism led to thousands of people dying as a result of violence, a similarly blinded by identity attitude could lead to many more thousands losing their lives, this time to a invisible enemy.
Most of us welcome a united front at Stormont in tackling this pandemic, but they must unite behind the correct policy.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has recommended widespread testing and that is what should be happening, how else can we trace, contact and isolate those who are unwittingly spreading the virus to the most vulnerable?
Our medical staff are crying out for the correct protective equipment to keep them safe.
Why would anyone look for guidance to the same government who starved the NHS of resources, who stripped it back to the bone, leaving it ill prepared for such a crisis.
The government who underpaid and undervalued nurses and key medical and cleaning staff, the people who we are now relying on to save the lives of those we love.
The city of London is heading towards disaster, the quickly named Nightingale hospital was constructed within the ExCel arena in the capital’s Docklands area in the space of a week.
It is expected to hold 4,000 seriously ill patients at any one time.
Boris Johnson has tested positive for coronavirus, his sidekick Dominic Cummings and his chief medical officer Chris Whitty are both self isolating
The herd immunity approach, favoured by a number of British politicians in the early days of the crisis, will come back and haunt them.
We of course would benefit from a united Stormont and an executive working together without selfish self interest.
But they must unite around the right policy and Sinn Féin are right to push for the WHO model, trust the professionals, trust the experts, trust the best medical and scientific minds on this planet.
That is how we will flatten the curve and that is how we will save as many lives as possible.
And I understand that some of you are feeling anxious and worried, about your job, the future but more importantly about the health of your loved ones.
I share all those concerns and worries.
But together we will come through this as we have the tough times of the past.
Take care of each other and stay safe.
