I and others share tips on FB about COVID and the things we need to do to protect ourselves. My latest brainstorm was about our shoes, how most of us have very likely been tracking the virus into our homes on the bottom of our shoes after sanitizing everything we buy, implementing social distancing (an idea that only works if EVERYONE believes it is important) and limiting all contact etc. Then came feet. People coughing and sneezing on store floors and us walking around and tracking it home. My brother and I both posted a warning about this today on FB but I believe we are weeks too late. I think that I dont have little ones who play on the floor but we do have 2 pets that walk on the floors and jump on our couches and beds. Our floors should have been listed in the first official messages about how to keep our homes safe! Even without the coughing and sneezing image, if you look you see people throwing cigarette butts on the ground and other forms of germ carrying litter that we walk through. My ex, Jim, called this morning and said he was sitting in his car in a parking lot eating fried chicken and throwing the bones out the window and was angry that he thought people passing by were glaring at him. They likely weren't, he's just paranoid like that, but I sure would glare at someone doing that!!
So, this is about what I think. I will continue to do everything in my power to protect my family, but I honestly believe it is a battle already lost. I believe we will ALL end up infected and it will be a roll of crooked dice who survives. It will weed out the sick, the old, and the poor and thin out the rest of the population as it sweeps the world.
After what we assume is worldwide investigation none of the important questions about COVID have been positively answered. Where it came from, how it spreads, what will kill it, can you get it more than once, how can we protect ourselves, none of these questions have a definitive solid answer. Answers to those questions change from day to day, minute to minute even.
With the science we have today we could have halted or at least greatly minimized all of the historic plagues of the world. But we have no clue how to deal with COVID!? Yes, viruses and bacteria evolve, become smarter and more deadly all on their own sometimes. But now we have to also consider the studies done to weaponize these things, experiments, playing God.
I cant wrap my mind around what it will be like when this starts hitting closer to home. IN my home. I cannot picture dealing with the death of any of my loved ones and that gives me a little selfish desire to die first that I immediately take back because I need to be here to take care of us as we fall ill.
We are told that it is no worse than a cold for some and death for others. That some people never have any symptoms. At first it was supposed to only be deadly to compromised people, the elderly and people with ling lung issues like Jazzy and me. But then we read about healthy, even wealthy, people dying every day. The roll of the crooked dice.
I am terrified.
