Covid 19 And The Stiff Upper Lip

Back in The U.K. after a visit to Ireland.

 Not talking about The Pandemic is like denying gravity exists. That ostrich approach of sticking our collective  head in the sand will not delay or deny the medical catastrophe, the logistics nightmare and the financial Armageddon that each of us experience in our own idiosyncratic ways.

Call it malignant optimism, but the shared hallucination that  it is "just the flu" is junk science. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger but make no mistake  about it:This virus can kill. It doesn't have a brain, but we do.

Careers are on hold, people are in limbo, and there are only two ways this epidemic will end: Medically, probably never. Socially, whenever we personally decide to take risks.

Knowledge on these two fronts is always going to be provisional and incomplete. As we tire of the Panic Mode, socially, we want to get on with our lives, and with the right simple precautions, we can  do it. While we wait for the medical end to the Global pandemic it is worth noting the immense progress on the biomedical front that has been achieved  in England, in this regard, as UK  labs have  some of the best life-saving medicine to combat Covid as well as  the best candidate vaccine.

The Czech Is In The Mail  Stimulus Check?  No. Wear a  mask? Yes

Until then, it is social distancing, hand washing and masks. Not being a mask-loving people, The English  embraced the mask  early on, as it proved to be one of  the more effective public-health responses to this epidemic. My colleague  Mike  Jones in The Czech Republic likewise had this best practice and trailblazing rule in March, and one of the strictest enforcement codes, that is now a symbolic landmark in the fight  against The Pandemic. Consequently, there are  virtually zero rates of infection in Czechia. Last week, citizens  had a Covid Farewell party in Prague as outdoors was IN and they scrapped the masks entirely as the country returned to  almost normal  as phased easing of restrictions were in place. In this case, taking the necessary precautions didn't kill them, it made them come out stronger in the long run.

We remain hopeful as the human desire to socialize will survive the pandemic.  We have only to look at the past to see our future.

 Think of The Roaring 20's after the Spanish Flu. Once this is behind us, prepare to Party Like It's B.C. Before Covid 1999.

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