Plague

As I was washing my hands (again) this morning, I was musing (again) about this pandemic, and thinking about what I have read over the years concerning the centuries long bubonic / pneumonic plagues in Europe and the "civilized" world. Those people had no clue what caused it, how it transmitted, or how to avoid being infected. Hygiene was probably not even a word yet, and certainly not practiced by anybody. Fear was rampant, and anyone who offered an explanation or a plan of action, however ludicrous it might sound to us in this century, was given credence.

Now I see and hear political and "religious" " leaders " blaming the coronavirus on whatever target group suits their agenda, or Satan, or Obama or anything or anyone. I am thankful that in this century, we have the option to listen to many different sources of information, including those whose only agenda is to get us through this as painlessly as possible.

I have a friend in Virginia, a microbiologist / belly dancer, who has been working over a hundred hours a week, trying to figure out how to combat this beast (by microbiology, not belly dancing) and a best friend / wife who works at a hospital, where all the latest information is put into practice. Those are the kind of sources I trust, not the finger pointing "news" channels or the creepy preachers bent on demonizing whatever or whoever they want us to perceive as enemies. Here in the twenty first century, we can choose between fear based and love based information. Choose love, my friends, choose love.