Corona cannot defeat us

All four of us sit together yesterday after long time. Both daughters were busy with studies for long. They are doing A/level and elder one Shania is always busy  with her arts. Well we start discussing Corona. Yes, that one. Then it’s happened that I had Grease – theatrical musical later turn into a cinema with John Travolta  as Danny and Olivia Newton John as Sandy. 

We were laughing at 70 s American costumes while enjoying the music. Well, Ines had an idea to watch “Dirty dancing” with Patrick Swayze as Johnny and Jennifer Grey as Frances (baby). As a teenager apparently she watched it 12 times (I knew the score) . Well, luckily, we had Amazon prime Video and start watching. For girls and me it’s the second time and for Ines it’s the 13^th time. She was dancing happily to the music and we were all laughing and happy.

And we realised we are not talking any more about damn coronavirus. Life is beautiful. It’s up to us to live and cherish it. Viruses come and go. Humanity will survive.

Thank you corona.

“remember the last song. It goes like this:

Now I've had the time of my life
No, I never felt like this before
Yes I swear it's the truth
And I owe it all to you

'Cause I've had the time of my life
And I owe it all to you

Just remember
You're the one thing
I can't get enough of
So I'll tell you something
This could be love

Survival of the fittest or the Rule of the Jungle

Herbert Spencer

"Survival of the Fittest" - Herbert Spencer 
"Natural Selection" -  Charles Darwin 
"Your loved ones will die " - Boris Johnson :)

Dear prime minister, you don't have to follow the ancestors to the letter.   It's our parents who took us to get close to other children who had  mumps, measles or Rubella  etc so we have the immunity.  And that was in  the 70s and 80s. We are now in 2020.

World wide death rate 

Herd immunity concept perhaps ok to apply for children where it's use has originated. However, when the death rate is increasing to 3.7% please think about population of 100,000. The number of deaths would be approximately 3700 . It will not be a small figure. Medial officers may be correct but at what cost.

increase in UK

China's total number of deaths gone down to 7. (Total deaths stand at 3180 and less than whole Europe. There are still 80991 confirmed cases and WHO still rank china as high risk. In Uk it's now 21. Perhaps it's time to follow China and do the unthinkable.

I know we can't close schools yet. If the parents stay away from work it will affect our economy. But you can ban the public gatherings. Offer more support to the elderly. Stop panic buying by people and introduce some rules to stop it. we may lose some of our freedom but it's for greater good.

Reference: WHO Situation Report

History of Plagues connected to 20s

From 420 BC Plague of Athens
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1620 New England epidemic, Malaria (South America) 

1720 -  Great Plague of Marseilles

1820 -First cholera pandemic

1920 - Spanish Flue (pandemic), Sixth cholera pandemic

2020 - Covid-19 Corona Virus Pandemic 

2120 - AI Virus ? (Artificial Intelligence)

I am sure will not be here in 2120.  So people , don't worry. These things happen time to time in this world. 
get used to it.