re: #77 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

The UK, Ireland, Germany have all come out with expectations that a majority of their populations will contract the virus in the next year.

The lethality is still being debated, but if it is 1% in the big picture, then indeed we’ll be looking at around a 1% drop in the population faster than expected.

Most will be old, expected to die in the next 5 to 10 years, so in the big picture the population dynamics won’t be that big.

However, if one of the victims is close to you, you’ll still suffer the loss of a loved before they would have died otherwise.

Yeah, I haven’t spoken about it until now, but I’m worried for my folks. Not only are both on the cusp of retirement, but they’ve both got health conditions (dad has angina, mom is diabetic), long-time smokers, and both are still working jobs that are physically taxing. Doesn’t help that they’re stubborn as mules, refusing to see a doctor until they’re so sick that they can’t ignore it any longer. My dad’s had bacterial pneumonia twice, both times refusing to seek medical help until it was bad enough that they had to give him the stronger antibiotics. And the cherry on top is both are on a cocktail of various drugs, which means they’re at risk for dangerous drug interactions if there’s a medical emergency.

And yet, both are also convinced that this is all a bunch of needless hysteria, that the whole thing is “no worse than the flu,” and if they get it they’ll just have to spend a few days at home before they can go back to work.