People are dying! Everybody panic! Stay home!
Works for me.
The more people who imprison themselves, the greater my freedom.
I've already had CV-19, several weeks ago, and fully agree with others who have also had it and claim that it's horrible. They're masters of understatement. But after a couple of weeks, we pulled through.
Our forebears made it through times that were much more deadly, but they didn't have media relentlessly and breathlessly "reporting" the horrors to them on an hourly basis.
When I was a kid, an uncle of mine lived in what they called an iron lung. If you want to talk about life, death, and weirdness, try visiting a relative who's in an iron lung. So my view goes something like this:
There is good evidence that being alive on the planet is deadly. 100% of people on this planet will die.
Most of the people who have died from CV-19 have had underlying infirmities ranging from old age to diabetes, while many healthy people tend to survive. I fall into the latter category, even as an old fart. But I'm a healthy old fart.
It's not CV-19 itself; it's CV-19 combined with underlying conditions that results in death - the virus itself is less lethal by far than many of the other illnesses and evils to which we've been exposed in the past. And to which we'll be exposed in the future.
The difference, really, comes down to media exposure.
But since everyone's staying at home, the roads are clear. That's really nice, as it greatly reduces the likelihood of getting into a wreck. So why haven't your car insurance rates gone down?
Both of the network's viewers are reportedly disheartened.
