Questions that blow through my mind

China is reporting that the coronavirus may have an incubation period of as long as 14 days. It may also be transmissible during that time.

That means that people wouldn’t know they were infected until it was too late.

So I have to ask… Has the genie already escaped the bottle?

Global travel, tourism, etc. may already have spread the virus beyond the confines of China. Indeed there are now cases reported in Orange, and Los Angeles counties, and other countries around the world. How many people do you bump into in an airport?

The 1918-1919 influenza killed 1/5 of the global population. Not to sound all doom and gloom, but with a population of approximately 7.8 billion people of the planet. If this virus were to do something similar, the death toll would be staggering.

I’m sure the CDC in this country is scrambling to learn everything they can as fast as they can. On the bright side, thus far the deaths have been relatively few versus the number of infections (at least as reported by Chinese media.) That may not be as great as it sounds. The 1918 Influenza initially has a small death toll, then it apparently mutated and in its second wave was far more lethal.

We’re not looking at a Walking Dead scenario. But we might be looking at a 12 Monkeys, or 28 Days scenario. 

China has more or less Isolated Wuhan. The question with a notoriously closed government like China’s is; What aren’t they telling the rest of the world?

Medical folks have been telling us for years that another pandemic isn’t a question of if, but when. 100 years ago, the so-called “Spanish Flu” burned across the planet.

Nature tends to work in cycles, it’s neither good or evil, Nature simply is. Who knows? Maybe the clock has ticked down to zero on a cycle and this is nature’s way of resetting the balance between resources and demand.

If this kind of thing interests you, look up the 1918 flu. It’s interesting reading, not just the death toll, but the global economic, and political, effects.

I found that it refocused my perspective. 

I’m not too worried, my apocalypse pager hasn’t gone off.

I don’t think I’ll be making any purchases other than local food for a while… Ever think about that?

When you open that box of “new shiny stuff” ever wondered what else might be lurking in the packaging? 

Just asking, and you’ll never open a box the same way again.

My gift to you…