Inevitable

Reality is real when it happens to you. At that moment the mind comprehends what it didn’t wish to before.

Trump’s COVID diagnosis is such a moment. We can only hope he appreciates the complexity of the real.

The rest of us – certainly a majority of people on the planet – understand the nature of disease and pandemics. They spread at will unless we do something about them. Taking simple precautions is the first step. Once a viral spread is evident, face masks, social distancing and even quarantining are immediate first steps. Hand washing and personal hygiene go a long way toward easing the spread, too.

Those who don’t get this logic, prefer to think someone is pulling a prank on them. Add some time to that thinking and conspiracy logic takes hold. Soon the planet is believed to be under a sordid Dark State attack. Conveniently, they see themselves as the only ones not duped.

Hmmmmm.

COVID will run its course while serious medical personnel treat the sick and serious scientists seek answers to the disease so they can quell it with an effective vaccine. Together they help one another deal with the attendant problems of the sick.

Policy makers in government, however, have the duty to protect the public’s safety and health. Those policymakers will have detractors. Usually political parties find levers to wield for their own gain. Then too, there are those who are so blinded by their own ideology, they cannot perceive truth and fact.

Trump will survive COVID. So will most of the White House team. Their health will most likely return to normal. They will get excellent medical care. Doubts about their mortality will be few, but that will cross their minds.

Now they know what the rest of us have accept all along. We can only hope they turn their attention to what should have been done all along this journey. Now. Better late than never.

Welcome to the world of aware living!

October 4, 2020