azdryheat wrote:
Sorry to those who can't take some humor. This virus has scared far too many people (snowflakes?). Were you all this scared in 2009 when the H1N1 killed 12,468 people in the US and there were 60 million reported cases? As I recall nothing much happened during that pandemic, no panic, no empty store shelves, no stay at home orders, no closed businesses, no nothing. Yet this new virus comes along, which isn't a fraction as deadly as the H1N1 and everyone is losing their minds. Maybe we've gotten too soft.
No, I think the boomers are the ones most scared with this one. And for good reason it appears. All those people getting knocked off by it in the nursing homes up here don't help matters though.
I'm not a smart enough person to argue the difference between this and H1N1 or any other pandemic, so maybe the abundance of caution is warranted. But I also partly agree with your last statement.
That's the kicker though. Once you're 70-80-90 years old, something is gonna getcha. If you dodge all the bullets and die of "natural causes", whatever that means, you apparently beat the odds.
I look at it different, considering my otherwise healthy lifestyle parents only made it to 59 and 69 years old. My wife, somehow beat stage IV Hodgkins when she was 16 and the after affects of that have taken 30 years out of the last 10 years of her life.
IMO, if you're 80 and the flu gets you, it was time.
