Generational Dynamics World View

[John J. Xenakis]

** 24-Feb-2020 World View: Coronavirus Updates

Guest Wrote:> I'm in Korea. Here is an update, for those who may be interested.

> One of the infected was taken away today. He lived on my
> street. No one saw the medical team arrive and depart. He was
> taken away and the government announced it and told us all the
> places he had been, including the pharmacy that I visited three
> times last weekend looking for surgical masks. It's now like this
> person doesn't exist. He has become a former person. I don't know
> his name. That part of the story is not reported. maybe i knew
> him? I am surrounded by the infected. Question. Am I am one them?

> I wear a surgical mask in the office now. It's no longer
> optional. My manager demanded I wear it. I used to take it of when
> I arrived. This is no longer allowed. New policy.

> Will I be taken away? Unless you are facing this, in a place like
> this, you can't understand what it is like. This attacker is
> invisible. How do you fight air?

> I hope the Korean government knows what it is doing.

> if this is a bio-weapon, it's a very clever one. Only the Chinese
> have lost control of it. And now we all suffer. And some die. Will
> the Chinese government ever be held to account for all this? I
> doubt it.

Thanks for the update from Korea. Right now Korea tops the list of
the countries of greatest international concern, the other two being
Iran an Italy.

Iran doesn't (yet) have as many cases as South Korea, but apparently
Iran's medical facilities are already overwhelmed by the 50-100 cases
it already has. It looks like Iran is next in line for a huge surge,
just like South Korea has been experiencing.

Iran is also being isolated, with Turkey, Armenia, Saudi Arabia,
Pakistan and Afghanistan all closing their borders to Iran. There's
also talk of Italy having to close its borders to the rest of Europe's
Schengen Zone.

Anyway, you've provided an update on how you're trying to survive. I
hope you succeed.

So now I'll give my own update.

All my life, whenever I've had the flu, I would take a big dose
of Nyquil and go to bed with a heating pad, and usually the
flu would be gone by morning. I was sometimes left with an ordinary
cold, but I could avoid even that with massive doses of Vitamin C.

So now Wuhan Coronavirus is coming over the hill towards me. I live
in Kendall Square, Cambridge, next door to MIT, where there are
thousands of Asian students milling around, many living in my
apartment building.

So I'm assuming I'm going to get it, and since I'm an "elderly"
person, I assume I'm going to die, which means that I have about a
month left to live, under these assumptions. What should I do?

Earlier today I bought a new supply of Nyquil. When the virus
strikes, I'll augment my usual anti-flu strategy, and take one dose of
Nyquil after another and just stay in bed sleeping.

There are two possibilities:

* I'll recover and wake up, and I'll have survived the Coronavirus.

* Or, I'll die in my sleep, which is a very convenient way to die.

So anyway, that's my plan. I don't know if it will actually happen
that way since, as the old saying goes, "Life is what happens while
you're making plans." But if I update my plan, I'll post an update.