I see the social distancing is working out well across the globe....
Been about this morning doing a few little local messages and what have you...Went into the local garden center and was quite amazed (even for my pretty already low standards for humans) that so many people were not even bothering to wear a mask let alone attempt to keep any kind of distance between other customers.
I understand people are fed up and want to get on with there lives? Want to get back to normal or as normal as can be. Beaches packed. Parks packed. Demonstrations and marches for this and for that....Looks like normality has returned alright. Of course, unless it was an enforced closure, there was never going to be any closure or lockdown. So fair enough to give people back responsibility to be cautious...and quite a lot are still shouldering that responsibility...But many are not.
So...it is not my intention to be depressed by this opening up of economies and so forth....but worth mentioning something that appears to be only starting to come to lite about the novel Covid-19 virus. It now appears from growing evidence coming in to scientists in the hospital environment that this little virus seems to work in a strange way....by that it is becoming clear that many people who have been infected do not essentially make 100% recovery after all. While it is early days gathering data from patients...there does seem to be a trend of residual issues surrounding an infected person's health...some months after initial recovery. For many a shortness of breath has continued with what appears to be a reduced capacity of lung function...a little bizarre..others have ongoing headaches....and many are reporting almost chronic fatigue like symptoms...again some months after the initial infection.
So be careful going outside.....this virus was and is not about the death column.....thats for headline writer...A case example would be in the time that this virus has killed just under 500,000 people approximately 1,500,000 children have died of malnutrition or malnutrition related illness. In Ireland we have about 1,500 deaths from Covid-19...but quite a lot more from not having elective surgery and the like..
The virus is doing quite well....in fact it is increasing by roughly a 1,000,000 cases inside a week now from about two weeks a month ago..approximately. More younger people are now being infected now as they see (as we all did at that age) themselves as invincible to it...
Anyway, really do not want to pontificating as I am sure many may think I am...but watch out when out....and stay away from the herd mentality...in fact as I learned from stock market investing....stay well away from the herd!!