COVID 19

Who wants to live for ever?
Better a day as a lion than a year as a sheep

COVID 19 is a virus ... that is all ... we had the flue pandemic in 1918-19 ... more recently ... AIDS, SARS and we still have tuberculosis and malaria around

the base facts of COVID are

1. about 80% of people infected show mild or no symptoms
   2 about 18% will feel like crap for a while, but will recover
   3 about 1 - 2% will die (in the west with health care) ... but likely to much higher in undeveloped countries
   4 anyone with underlying health conditions is more likely to die (bad news for little old diabetic me)

There are many personal tragedies as people are dying in advance of when they would have ...... many elderly and sick people will die this year... causing death rates will spike now, but be reduced for the coming years.

Think of the herds of wildebeest and zebra migrating across Africa ... the lions, crocs, etc prey on the weak, slow and injured, removing them from the herd, but leaving the herd stronger and fitter. COVID 19 is this years predator on humankind.

It is a natural event, that comes around every so often .... most people will survive with nothing worse than sad memories of this time.