I’ve just read a confronting article suggesting that we are in for many many more pandemics, much more frequently, with NO ‘return to normal’.
‘The way we were living prior to COVID, the intimate interactions with animals, this globally connected transport network, these massive mega-cities, all those things are an accident waiting to happen’. ‘Exploiting animals exposes us to their viruses’. “It’s accelerating,” Nobel laureate immunologist Professor Peter Doherty says. “We have got an enormous increase in threat.”
‘The Black Death took five years to circle Europe. An emerging virus in a city with an airport is instantly a global threat’ . ‘We need some sort of global agreement to instantly ground the world’s airplanes’.
And even more cheery stuff! I’m sure you can find it too!
Thanks, Margaret! 😉
https://www.agingcare.com/discussions/caregiver-jokes-152323.htm?orderby=recent
If you lose the link, you can find it by entering ‘jokes’ in the search box next to the magnifying glass at the top right of the screen.
I take a bit of trouble to be cheerful, including buying new joke books every time I go to an Op Shop. (Cwillie, yesterday I gave away the ‘When I was a kid I thought ...’ that you disliked so much) It would be great to have new posters to that site, and to give a few more of us a little giggle.
Yours covered in shame, Margaret
I thought it was interesting to see something factual and understandable, rather than just rubbish either way. And I was selfish too – on an isolated farm, we don’t face most of the risks. Every time we go to a city, we pass through more and more building for a steadily increasing population, so it all seems to make sense.
The government here certainly doesn’t want us to live in ‘a state of fear’ - they want us all to go out (safely) and spend money. Cheerfully, if possible. At least my days of international travel are well and truly over! Apologies again, folks.
All the more reason to live every day as though it is your last, 🍰🥂💃🏾