Thread: The C. Virus and human reaction

I haven't been out of the house since this thing started except for a few car rides where I didn't get out of the car. I have a dentists appointment tomorrow and that will be the first time being really out and I have a supply of N-100 masks which they say are not acceptable because they have a exhaust port in them.

My wife teaches and she can retire if she wants and if they decide to go back to normal teaching she be gone.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

My wife teaches and she can retire if she wants and if they decide to go back to normal teaching she be gone.

The boss and I were talking about that very same thing the other day. It is back to school in a month up here and both of us agreed that if we were teachers qualified to retire we would be gone under those circumstances.

Bob

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There is no way I would work as a teacher in a classroom. Life is to short. I would not risk my life for a paycheck if I had the choice.

Originally Posted by randydance062449

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There is no way I would work as a teacher in a classroom. Life is to short. I would not risk my life for a paycheck if I had the choice.

Yes, feel the same way and so damn glad I have been retired for 11 years now. It sure takes a lot of stress out of the situation the pandemic has left us to deal with. The boss has been a homemaker for the last 25 years so no stress there either.

Bob

My daughter in law, the teacher, just took a years sabbatical. We fully support her decision.

C.S. Lewis -

https://americandigest.org/c-s-lewis...an-atomic-age/

I think Lewis makes a good point. If we become so preoccupied with avoiding the risks of life, which are many, then we add an additional risk - that of not really living.

Originally Posted by honedright

C.S. Lewis -

https://americandigest.org/c-s-lewis...an-atomic-age/

I think Lewis makes a good point. If we become so preoccupied with avoiding the risks of life, which are many, then we add an additional risk - that of not really living.

There is a not so fine line there.We could all go rock climbing without ropes and drink water from that bubbling brook next hike or drive 120 miles an hour. So if I die I die doing something I like eh?

To those who think we should just throw caution to the wind and screw staying home and shutting down and wearing masks and hey herd immunity will solve the problem the question then becomes how many folks are you willing to sacrifice? Maybe a quarter million or maybe one million maybe more but hey the economy will be fine.

So you sit down and watch the news in the morning and see 150,000+ dead from this thing and think my, what a terrible thing and then go on with your life. Yes it be easy to read about the death of strangers. What if it's your family having a loved one in the hospital fighting for their lives.

Sure there are no guarantees in life. You could get terminal cancer tomorrow or get run over by a truck tonight or we could be invaded by Klingons tomorrow or be hit by a giant meteor. but there are some things we can do something about as opposed to some things we can't.

If you live to be around 80 and have to spend a year or less restricted so what percentage of your life has been spent "not living"? What is a human life worth to you? Civilization will survive just about everything. It survived the black death, it survived two world wars and it will survive this.