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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nThe Coronavirus is a pandemic that most of us don’t\nunderstand, but we are learning. This disease has taken over 9,000 lives and\nmade over 220,000 more people sick. We’ve heard via television about it starting\nin China and its impact even before arriving in America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So far this is what we know about Coronavirus. The disease\nis life threatening. If the disease does not kill you, there is a\nchance you will be very sick with severe respiratory problems. Thousands of\nrespirators are needed across the country because of the nature of the disease.\n Who wants to be in an intensive care unit of a hospital on a\nrespirator? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The virus is teaching us that we are a fragile human race.\nWe are vulnerable to disease, death and chaos. Our masses of wealth can\ndisappear almost overnight. The stock market has fallen like a rock. As of this\nwriting, everything that the stock market gained in the three years that Trump\nhas been President has been wiped out. What if it crashes totally? How many\ncompanies will go bankrupt and everything people have invested will be gone? We\ncould experience a kind of poverty that our country has not known for a long\ntime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What was it like during the Great Depression? I remember old\nfolks talking about those hard times. Could we be in for that kind of a\ndifficult time, or even worse? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are learning that what previously seemed far-fetched and\nunrealistic, for our great economy and planet, is possible. It just takes one\nplague to rearrange our lives. One virus cleans out the grocery stores, idles\nour jobs and robs our bank accounts. One virus immobilizes our society and robs\nus of the social interaction that we have taken for granted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of us are always looking down the pike for better days\nand greener pastures. Typically, we are on the hunt for the bigger and the\nbetter. We usually don’t miss the good things of life until we no longer have\nthem. Sadly, we spend a lot of life looking beyond or looking back and we miss\nthe present. I’m sure you’ve heard before that “now” is life’s\ngreatest gift. That’s why we call it the “present.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Coronavirus is no “gift” and is certainly\nsomething we want to put behind us as soon as possible. When this is behind us\nmaybe we will feel different about sitting in our favorite restaurant, a beauty\nsalon, house of worship or entertainment venue. Many Americans already look\nforward to going back to work and resuming paychecks. Hopefully, grocery stores\nwill once again have ample food, toiletries and other basics that we have come\nto take for granted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we are beyond all this, maybe we won’t take all that we\nhave for granted, or will we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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