I'm not likely to create a series of thoughts on this matter. I am however likely to note a thing or two in the future, directly or not, regarding this matter.
I am worried about the future. Not because I think things will get that bad due to coronavirus disease, but rather, I suspect a general period of stagnation. Fear on one hand and disruption on the other as thousands die. Our ill-prepared system is shown to be as it is. Our experts and government officials over-estimating risks to ensure they limit those risk factors. People then rejecting the inflated risks and so creating the risk factors that can lead to worsening problems. Many try to lower risk as much as possible, others ignore advice, jobs at risk, future hopes placed on hold, but for a cause that is not unfair. A likelihood is normality returns within months, or months longer if handled poorly. Yet, with much debate on the matter of how to handle the situation, the question of how the cope is much contested. A pondered question by some is would the cost of mass illness even be as bad as the concerns, or should those with health issues be isolated while the rest keep calm and carry on. But how can you Isolate such people when society mingles. And many don't know what they do or do not have. Health concerns and unseen problems conspiring to up the toll. Equally, if on matters of carers, if they are expected to be the plague doctors of the modern-day, then how can they limit risk unless we all limit together?? No easy answers, no simple tricks, but in a year's time some will laugh about this. And, indeed, Some are laughing now. Is this wisdom or folly, no person may say until the passage is scribbled into the history books. I suspect that it would not be as bad as some suggest, yet a trivial matter it is not.
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