COVID-19 RELATED SOCIAL DISTANCING - SHOULD IT CONTINUE EVEN AFTER THE "ALL CLEAR" HAS BEEN SOUNDED?
I gotta be honest, I like the social distancing requirements brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, primarily because I'm pretty much a loner by nature (plus, I'm in prison so I don't get out much anyway). I'm not a "touchy-feely" kinda guy, not a social hugger or kisser - not only because I just don't like it, it just seems to be a bad idea. With the potential for all kinds of disease, viral and bacterial infections, and the ever feared cooties, why not keep the social distancing models in place as a part of the human plan for survival?
Keeping ones distance had to have been at least part of how our species has survived countless plagues and outbreaks for hundreds of thousands of years. No doubt Bubba the caveman contracted some sort of bug and spread it amongst his tribe. Social distancing practiced by the tribe in the next valley kept them safe, while Bubba and his kin walked around with body parts falling off before being lost to the gene pool.
Bubonic plague (aka, the Black Death) got a foothold in crowded European cities like London in 1350, killing approximately half the population. Sickness such as Typhus, Rubella and Influenza hastened the death of millions, with the flu sweeping through New York and Philadelphia in 1733, and worldwide in 1918 - killing up to an estimated 100 million people, and 675,000 in the U.S. alone.
Most of those who survived epidemics and pandemics throughout history practiced social distancing did so simply as a way of life, sticking to themselves and their families with little to no contact with outsiders. Today, with local and global transportation technologies accommodating, even encouraging social interaction, people have to change their lives dramatically just to keep their distance from others. Were people simply to practice common sense social distancing without the government requiring them to do so or waiting for some super bug to scare them into it, there would be a lot less sick people, health care costs would drop and insurance rates would be wrangled under control.
Maybe the future survival of the human species started here, in 2020, with the COVID-19 virus. As with 9/11, so too will the people pretend to put the events brought about by the coronavirus behind them, but the lessons learned will be remembered by many for years to come.
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Keeping ones distance had to have been at least part of how our species has survived countless plagues and outbreaks for hundreds of thousands of years. No doubt Bubba the caveman contracted some sort of bug and spread it amongst his tribe. Social distancing practiced by the tribe in the next valley kept them safe, while Bubba and his kin walked around with body parts falling off before being lost to the gene pool.
Bubonic plague (aka, the Black Death) got a foothold in crowded European cities like London in 1350, killing approximately half the population. Sickness such as Typhus, Rubella and Influenza hastened the death of millions, with the flu sweeping through New York and Philadelphia in 1733, and worldwide in 1918 - killing up to an estimated 100 million people, and 675,000 in the U.S. alone.
Most of those who survived epidemics and pandemics throughout history practiced social distancing did so simply as a way of life, sticking to themselves and their families with little to no contact with outsiders. Today, with local and global transportation technologies accommodating, even encouraging social interaction, people have to change their lives dramatically just to keep their distance from others. Were people simply to practice common sense social distancing without the government requiring them to do so or waiting for some super bug to scare them into it, there would be a lot less sick people, health care costs would drop and insurance rates would be wrangled under control.
Maybe the future survival of the human species started here, in 2020, with the COVID-19 virus. As with 9/11, so too will the people pretend to put the events brought about by the coronavirus behind them, but the lessons learned will be remembered by many for years to come.
Information about the inside - from the inside. Have your family and friends visit or subscribe to the Idaho Prison Blog today - log on to: www.idahoprisonblog.blogspot.com - it's FREE!