I think we need to accept that this current virus, like all viruses, will eventually reach everyone who is susceptible to it. If your genetic makeup opens you to the virus creating illness in you, count on it happening. You will get sick. How hard it will be depends on DNA and a lot of other factors but it will happen. If you are resistant, that will not change. Think of things like the common cold. I understand there are many versions. We all have experienced them. It happens.
The craziness needs to stop. I wrote about being kicked out of a hospital because I didn’t wear a mask. It is a strange world where you are not allowed into a medical building if you are sick. It is like being banned from the grocery store if you are hungry. It also ignores the large number of people who pick up life threatening diseases while they are in the sanitary facility.
There are things you can do. Most of them are obvious and anyone with good hygiene and a sense of community is already doing them, in fact they were always doing them. Someone remarked that one of the great results of all this panic media is that men are beginning to wash their hands in the bathroom. If I were young and frisky I would be learning to stay home when I was sick instead of going to work and infecting everyone. Simple things that are called common sense.
There are things you can’t change. Was your youth filled with cigarettes, alcohol and STD roulette? There isn’t much you can do about that now. Did your parents give you weak lungs or a disposition to diabetes? That is beyond your control, but keep in mind that those things were true before all the hype.
I would not be surprised if I found I had the virus. My theory is that it has been around a long time but was just ignored because it was like any other flu. The biggest danger is not the people who will die and have it blamed on the China virus. The numbers that are on the road to an early death because they have been denied “non-essential” procedures are going to dwarf the real deaths from something called 19. The spin off deaths from depression, loss of income and isolation will never be tallied.
Time for the world to get moving again.
homo unius libri
Amen. It DOES concern me, though, that if the thing isn't allowed to run its course NATURALLY (no lockdowns or distancing) we may still be fighting it in five years.
ReplyDeleteIt will eventually just become one of many unnamed viruses that hit people all the time. If left alone people will develop immunity to it and others like it.
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Certainly is time to get back to 'almost' normal
ReplyDeleteI guess there is a sense in which nothing is really normal.
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