We all are still sheltering in place, but I'm here to keep you sane and entertained.
One could hardly ask for much more than that, now could one?
How appropriate: today is National Twilight Zone Day. If only some of this had been submitted for our approval.
As I said, we are (nearly) all still sheltering in place, but we're no longer doing what we were told we were going to do: flatten the curve to make sure we had hospital capacity. Now we're hiding until there's a cure, and nothing good can come from this. This will steal the lives and livelihoods of massive numbers of people. I'm not a doctor, but I have seen them on television, and it seems to me that this will also compromise otherwise healthy immune systems, simply from lack of exercise, as it were.
I hate to agree with Bill Maher, but he's right that we can't sanitize the universe, and we have to come out of hiding and live at some point.
Can we simply all hide forever? Clearly the answer to that is no.
So, when do we decide to bite the bullet and start living again? We really need to allow those who can to develop their immunity - get the virus and beat it - rather than try to hide until it goes away. It's not going away, folks. Coronaviruses are notoriously quick to mutate, so it's going to be at least as tough to develop vaccines over time as it has been to guess which flu strains will predominate each flu season.
Keep in mind, though, that mutations to the virus do not necessarily mean worse outcomes for humans. The most successful strains will be those that use humans effectively to reproduce - WITHOUT KILLING THE HOST. The longer the virus can use us the better from its survival standpoint; and, frankly, from ours as well. I'm not interested in being a casualty of viral reproduction, and I doubt you are either.
So, wash your hands with regular old soap. Stop using all the anti-bacterial and anti-biotic stuff when it's not absolutely necessary. There's no point in developing other things to be resistant to tools that don't work for this anyway.
Sadly, this is going to take a measure of common sense, and for that reason I almost despair.
Keep Calm and Stay Away.
I'll be back tomorrow.
One could hardly ask for much more than that, now could one?
How appropriate: today is National Twilight Zone Day. If only some of this had been submitted for our approval.
As I said, we are (nearly) all still sheltering in place, but we're no longer doing what we were told we were going to do: flatten the curve to make sure we had hospital capacity. Now we're hiding until there's a cure, and nothing good can come from this. This will steal the lives and livelihoods of massive numbers of people. I'm not a doctor, but I have seen them on television, and it seems to me that this will also compromise otherwise healthy immune systems, simply from lack of exercise, as it were.
I hate to agree with Bill Maher, but he's right that we can't sanitize the universe, and we have to come out of hiding and live at some point.
Can we simply all hide forever? Clearly the answer to that is no.
So, when do we decide to bite the bullet and start living again? We really need to allow those who can to develop their immunity - get the virus and beat it - rather than try to hide until it goes away. It's not going away, folks. Coronaviruses are notoriously quick to mutate, so it's going to be at least as tough to develop vaccines over time as it has been to guess which flu strains will predominate each flu season.
Keep in mind, though, that mutations to the virus do not necessarily mean worse outcomes for humans. The most successful strains will be those that use humans effectively to reproduce - WITHOUT KILLING THE HOST. The longer the virus can use us the better from its survival standpoint; and, frankly, from ours as well. I'm not interested in being a casualty of viral reproduction, and I doubt you are either.
So, wash your hands with regular old soap. Stop using all the anti-bacterial and anti-biotic stuff when it's not absolutely necessary. There's no point in developing other things to be resistant to tools that don't work for this anyway.
Sadly, this is going to take a measure of common sense, and for that reason I almost despair.
Keep Calm and Stay Away.
I'll be back tomorrow.
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