Just because there is a danger about doesn't mean one should succumb to fear and panic, Ralf.
Just because extraordinary rules and regulations have been put in place to help reduce/control the emergency doesn't mean one should be panicked and fearful either. One should accept the rules and regulations as a temporary and necessary burden, and do appropriate things in accordance. Just because I or anyone else self-quarantines, washes their hands every thirty seconds, or doesn't touch anyone or anything else intentionally doesn't mean we don't breathe and eat. If we stopped doing those things, our survival rate would be pretty dismal too. It only takes one virus, a microscopic speck, that seats and reproduces in the body to cause an infection. Minimize the chance of that happening, yes, but the probability of it happening can never be made zero. I don't need to be lectured that I must fear and panic: I won't. Save your breath, that would be a better thing than wasting it on lecturing me. There is no vaccine and no cure for old age yet either. Older people are particularly susceptible to succumbing to it. Life is risky, fragile, and mortality must be accepted: we have no choice. Every one of us will die at some point, no exceptions. G — …Until that moment Vetch had watched him with an anxious dread, for he was not sure what had happened there in the dark land. He did not know if this was Ged in the boat with him, and his hand had been for hours ready to the anchor, to stave in the boat's planking and sink her there in midsea, rather than carry back to the harbors of Earthsea the evil thing that he feared might have taken Ged's look and form. Now when he saw his friend and heard him speak, his doubt vanished. And he began to see the truth, that Ged had neither lost nor won but, naming the shadow of his death with his own name, had made himself whole: a man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life's sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark. In the Creation of Ea, which is the oldest song, it is said, "Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky." That song Vetch sang aloud now as he held the boat westward, going before the cold wind of the winter night that blew at their backs from the vastness of the Open Sea. … "A Wizard of Earthsea" - Ursula K. LeGuin > On Mar 15, 2020, at 7:26 AM, Ralf R Radermacher <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 15.03.20 um 13:39 schrieb Godfrey DiGiorgi: >> I don't participate in the world of fear and panic. > > You ain't seen nothing yet, over there... > > European countries are now focussing their efforts on keeping the curve > of new cases as flat as possible in order to stretch the whole event > over a longer time so as not to overload their medical systems which > are, as a whole, better equipped and more numerous than at your end, not > to mention their affordability for large parts of the population. > > > Even my good buddies of thirty years don't want to get together for > > our weekly dinner out of fear. Pah. > > There is no vaccine and no cure yet. Older folks are especially > vulnerable. All they can do is keep people apart so they'll not infect > each other too quickly. > > But don't take my word for it. You'll learn soon enough. > > Ralf -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
