Shadowprophet
Truthiness
I suspect this will be worse than the Spanish flu when things are said and done.
I suspect this will be worse than the Spanish flu when things are said and done.
I think the most problem of fear is people accepting that these hard times are really upon us. We have never known a hardship quite like this one, But History has known much hardship. People fear to accept the new normal, People don't want to accept what is to come. But it is here.I think fifty plus million is way big.
Many things being done, people pulling together and even hybrid breathers being mass produced by an accumulation of car manufacturers. Red and green card system is a great idea for the elder neighbours. Stick it in the window and the rest speaks for itself. They list what the problem is on the red one and it's another little problem solver.
It is starving.
I think the most problem of fear is people accepting that these hard times are really upon us. We have never known a hardship quite like this one, But History has known much hardship. People fear to accept the new normal, People don't want to accept what is to come. But it is here.
I am afraid, But so are others. There is comfort in the words, None of us were promised tomorrow, Many people that fear this Coronavirus were fated to pass away by other means Because Death doesn't stop for anyone or anything.
I am not tying a pretty ribbon around death, I am only expressing, Death has always been with us. Now, It simply possesses a new face to fear.
This is bad. But there will be survivors, And someday, This new face of fear will end, But Death and sorrow will always exist, With new faces to always fear. So then Must we always live in fear?
Like Any other emotion even in the worst times, Fear comes in waves and goes. We do as we have always done, We enjoy the happiness we can find, And we Heed caution, Life is truly at its philosophical core, Not very different than before this virus.
We will be happy, We will be Sad, We will know Fear, We will know Relief. Some day, This threat will end. And Another will Begin.
I just came back from the supermarket. I was pleased to see large stacks of boxes in many isles, waiting to be unpacked.
I just came from the store and it was pretty well stocked, but they were out of eggs.
You should try to order those jumbo toilet paper rolls online. The Plexiglas is also in the store I was at and they removed those rubber stoppers that divide customer groceries because everyone touches them. In the store and at the post office they have markers taped to the floor to denote a six foot distance between people. I felt I was standing on a board game.I also went to the grocery store today and pet store, well...actually I went to 9 grocery stores and 2 walmarts today...I stopped at the first grocery closest to my house and purchased about a 2 week supply of food and took that home...Then I decided to venture out and see if I could find toilet paper since the grocery store I was first at this morning didn't have any...I went out about 25 miles northeast and hit every grocery store and walmart along the way, none of them had toilet paper and only one had paper towels...
There was a pet superstore I came across in that drive so I stopped there and stocked up on Kobi's food and bought him some new toys...He was riding with me so he came in the pet store with me and picked out a couple toys he wanted lol...Not a soul in the pet store either, just the woman behind the counter with a plexiglass shield in front of her...Two of the grocery stores had plexiglass shields up at the registers in front of the attendant...The new norm?...
Needless to say, the reason I ventured out on a toilet paper hunt is because I was running low...Three rolls left it's time to get more, ordered some online, won't get that delivery until May 22nd...So after coming up empty on that road trip I texted mom, she has plenty in her garage and hooked me up to get me by for a little while lol...
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I won't be leaving my house again until Monday next week, I was asked to come in Monday to work for a little bit that morning and as long as things are not crazy around here I will, but if by Monday the virus is rampant all through this area where I live I will not go anywhere...
Just thinking out loud and I know some won't agree, but I find it both disturbing and distasteful for people to use a crisis such as this to promote and push their religious views upon others...
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Nice to be in control of your exposure for a period of time. I feel pretty surrounded. Just up the street is my doctors. Five hundred meters away and they are going to use the small car park as a testing center for those who are suspected to have it or had it. Not just NHS staff but any showing the signs. Not in place yet but my sources are good and from a hospital worker.
Nice.
Unfortunately I think that six weeks is an overly optimistic projection: history shows us that highly infectious pathogens like this one linger within the population for 12-18 months or more. So when the restrictions are lifted after getting through a really nasty outbreak like this one, it comes back and you get another huge and horrible outbreak all over again.Yeah and it appears that what @Thomas R. Morrison said about flattening the curve in the rate of new infections will be much needed in the near future, we need to ride this out for about 6 weeks or so I'm guessing, by then the peak death rate will have hopefully passed, but its going to get really ugly though about midway through the next six weeks, its not the time to let our guards down yet...
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