Coronavirus . . .

The nation, indeed the whole world, is going crazy over the Coronavirus.  It is serious but made more serious by a media heighten sense of fear.  Roosevelt said, "We only have to fear itself."  Famous words with the declaration of war against Japan December 7, 1941.  Yes, we are in a war but is it more serious than the common Flu?  Apparently not and we have a vaccine for Flu (and altogether to many people do not get their annual Flu shot) but no vaccine for Coronavirus.  This time next year we will have that vaccine and I bet lots of people will not get the shot.

We are killing in the USA more people due to Flu by many thousands than we are from Coronavirus.  Yes, the elderly are more at risk die Coronavirus.  Italy with an unusual amount of elderly folks and as a nation has been hit hard with many deaths.  Iran has been hit hard because they are doing little to prevent the social contact vis-à-vis person to person.  They are being hard headed.  Who knows what is going on in Spain or for that matter in Great Britain or Germany.  The Russians have said little but are up to their noses in it.  And India has put 1.3 billion people on sequester.

We do know now that about 80% of the people infected have little or no symptoms.  They may feel ill but it seems to soon pass.  Youngsters, and I mean really young children, do not seem to be badly impacted by the virus.

Young adults do get the disease just as much as the elderly but have strong bodies and are generally more healthy than us oldsters.  We oldsters all seem to have other secondary issues that make the disease much worse.  So yes, we have a greater risk for more compromising disease and even death.  But we have that risk any way as elderly people, we are nearer to the end of life than to the beginning of life.  That is just plain facts.

Do I like those facts, no, I am one of those elderly that have other issues.  Personally I am impacted by Agent Orange and have Diabetes Type II.  I am 80 years of age so I fit into the wrong category of risk, I am high risk!

My wife has other compromising issues and severe heart disease to go with it all.  And while she is not yet 80 she will be 79 years of age shortly.  She is probably higher risk than I am.

But we can not live a life of fear.  We must live life as we are, we have no choice. We will soldier on regardless of what transpires for us.

Take care folks, give us space and you take your space too.