Sunday afternoon and I noticed today how quiet the world is. No sports to speak of on any level. Not even a local little league game. No music concerts. No events of any nature. No flea markets, garage sales or art exhibits. No shopping. No gatherings. Dining out is no longer an option and you can forget about bars. So with everyone pretty much keeping to themselves, it's pretty quiet.
Maybe when this is all over we can learn to live a simpler life. Less is more they say. We'll see.
Much of our future is uncertain. When will a vaccine be ready? When will the world reopen for commerce? When will it feel normal? When will the new cases and deaths end?
(85,506 new cases and over 150,000 total deaths world wide) The world waits quietly for new orders on social distancing. In two weeks the nation will be given new protocols for what they can and cannot do in public in an attempt to begin the climb out of our nation's depressed economy. None of us really knows how the world will respond once the virus has petered out and no new cases are present.
The fear will always be with us. The anxiety of when/if the next virus will attack. At least will be prepared. Ready to combat the disease with in place protocols to prevent spread. This is our future. It is all about predictions. Some experts (humans smarter than most of us and masters in their field) are saying the death totals in America will be less than originally thought. They say it may not be long before we climb out of this depressed economy once all of us are back to work. Some medical experts say viruses like coronavirus are here to stay and we can expect them every flu season.
Much of what happens in the next year will depend upon our ability to produce a vaccine and/or better treatments, the people and how they protect each other with methods known to work (social distancing, hand washing, etc) and the understanding that a move back to normalcy needs to be gradual . A point to note here is Bill Gates and other notable disease and flu experts have been warning of a pandemic for years. Maybe listening to these experts in the future will be heeded more closely. Again none of us know. One thing we are assured of is none of us want to go through this current state of affairs again, ever, if at all possible. Good night world and good luck.
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