As many in the world stand agog at the disruption and chaos invoked worldwide by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 infection it causes, please take time today to remember a couple of simple yet critical things.
Remember, and Reach Out to, the Elderly and Infirm in Your Neighborhood
While it’s clear that there is far, far more we don’t understand about the behavior of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the intermediate and longer term responses of the human body to the COVID-19 process, it’s brutally obvious that the virus has thus far has been devastating to those in their 8th and 9th decades of life in particular.
Take a bit of time today and reach out to your more mature family, friends, and neighbors – make sure they’ve got the immediate essentials needed to manage these first of what indeed may be a number of days at home, and offer words (and deeds if needed) of encouragement and support.
The more mature among us, hopefully wiser as well, have seen various life challenges come and go, and most understand that ‘this too shall pass’ is much more often true than not.
And Remember Those Who “Keep Us Alive”
Reader JK in Houston sent in a link to an article recently posted in National Review – Remembering Who is Keeping Us Alive – a worthy, quick read today.
From the article –
…The point is that in our age of necessary shutdowns and staying home, one thing we must do is eat — and eat well to stay healthy. And that means lots of people have to go to work and produce food and transport it to the major cities, and not always in isolation on the south 40.
Farmers do a lot more than just drop a seed in the ground and then by rote watch it sprout into a corn stalk, as one of our nation’s richest and most influential figures lectured us not all that long ago. For millions to subsist at home, to force the virus to sputter out, they must eat, as well as have power, running water, law enforcement, and sanitation. And that means millions of Americans must go to work as usual and sustain the elementals and existential forces of American life for 330 million, usually out of sight and out of mind, as we concentrate on the required quarantining of universities, offices, bureaus, sporting events, etc…
Hang in there, be smart, turn off the news, and do some remembering today.
