Trying to cope with deadly dribble

TRYING TO COMPREHEND how a dribble’s weight of virus can terrify not just the populations of the mighty landmasses, the Americas, China and India, but all of

the world, really challenges imagination.

As a child, who didn’t suffer his (or her) first bout of flu and who hasn’t been sent to bed by it scores of times?

Throughout most of our lives, we’ve learned to accept its intrusion as not much more aggravating than parking tickets and lottery investments that fail, and temper tantrums of loved ones.

A bad name

Yet give a flu bug a bad name - like coronavirus, and covid-19 - and term the virus itself as ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 - (SARS-CoV-2) – and suddenly it’s much more of a challenge to all of us, it seems, than Gorbachev, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao Zedong, all wrapped up into one.

How can that be? Some of the question is answered …
Continues on the blogs for my ocean adventuring book, Sailing to Purgatory, at
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