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The Journey Is the Destination ...
'Not All Who Wander Are Lost.' - J.R.R. Tolkien.
Kids are launched.
I've a streak of wanderlust and nothing holding me anywhere ...
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Covid has It's work cut out for it if it's going take the "Deadliest Crown" Honors from Spanish Flu ...
Covid will have to ...
infect roughly 2.5 Billion folks ...
And leave 225 Million Dead in it's wake -- 3% of people now alive on Earth and a figure equal to roughly 70% of the U.S. Population ...
I isolate now for 3 months and even then I will take care until a vaccine is found as this virus I reckon will linger for a long time.
You stay safe miclee
The Guy in the vids (Guy McPherson) is 60 yo.
As he's noted, "There was always going to be a final generation. We didn't ask to be here now, we were born into the Captivity Of Civilization. We'll get to be here to see how it ends." -
Kinda odd in a way.
Humans have a long history of anticipating pending End Times -- usually associated with something WE'VE Done ... Eaten Forbidden Fruit. Opened Pandora's Box. Broken A Tabu. Sinned ... ... ...
It'll be a mite humbling if for Humankind when The End is brought on by a wee virus undoing what we did & releasing Arctic methane -- which we didn't put there ...
The National Museum article on Spanish Flu in Australia
Holidays in my early youth were spent driving around the countryside in a 1952 Holden, often visiting small town cemeteries, where the gravestones showed many young people who had died 1918-19. Only 15,000 died in Australia, but 40% of the population was infected.
The part about people losing their sense of taste, other bizzare symptoms, the speculation it was around much earlier and misdiagnosed as pneumonia, the virus' ability to mutate and how it evolved into something horrible.
My dads old stories about it weren't exaggerations after all, he understated it.
I heard such stories from my Mom, Raph -- Mass burials & such ... Even the children's ditty of the "... Little bird, it's name was Enza".
Mom was 'bout 10 at the time, so I can imagine her singing it
But, as you say, her childhood stories understated the ghastliness of it all
Here's some minor updates. Yes. It seems are changing all of the time. Definitely looking better than earlier estimates with out any real information.
I think any given year, when a person becomes sick enough to have to at least be bed ridden for a couple of days or so, there may be a possibility of ong term effects.
That's just my opinion. Yes. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger to point. It still weakens us in other points to win the battle. Just not sure how much or what.
I think the article have left out these considerations, which of course would be more or less impossible to know. But that they had shortage in their food supply, is sensible to assume.