My Thoughts On Covid 19

We're in the process of waiting for "Instacart" to deliver our groceries next Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Now it's been announced they are planning to go on strike Monday, March 30, 2020. Gee ain't that swell! Here we thought we were doing everyone a favor by staying out of the grocery store. (a) To help relieve overcrowding. (b) Not subjecting ourselves or the store to contamination. (c) To provide much needed work for unemployed low skilled workers. Instead they decided now is a perfect time to pull a strike when business has never been better. Supposedly they're striking because they don't feel they're being given adequate protection from the virus. When they deliver ours they leave it on the back porch, ring the bell and stand 10 feet away. Seems like a money grab to me. Workers already get 5% the cost of the order. In the case of our last order it would earn someone over $16. Not enough for about 1 hour's worth of work?

About the virus itself.
Florida has seen 25% increase in infections over the last 24 hours. The average Temperature in Florida this time of year ranges from 70 degrees upward. So it seems to me we shouldn't be holding out hope Covid 19 is going to simply disappear in warmer weather. If it doesn't we're stuck with 2 choices. (a) Restart the economy even with the risk. (b) Stay hunkered down till the economy collapses. Neither is a good choice.

So here's a thought. Nature never has shown a preference towards humans nor animals when calamities strike. In the case of some diseases in the past it has wiped out almost entire civilizations and species of animals. We saw this when Europeans first arrived to this continent. Some jungle tribes when explorers and missionaries arrived. What remained was only the heartiest whose immune systems could fight off the diseases. What emerged was only those who could no longer be afflicted. It seems nature is continually evolving by eliminating the weaker species no matter the cost to any particular one. I fear such might be the case here. Like I said nature plays no favorites.

Irrationality seems to be the order of the day. Fear will do that. If there's one thing worse then what a disease can do to society it is what damage we are capable of doing unto one another. We tend to accuse and finger point then act out against one another as if somehow someone else rather then the disease is to blame for our woes. This virus wants to stay alive. So do we. The will to survive can make both deadly as the other. It's inherit it all things from plants to animals, and everything else that ever existed. What determines each species being able to survive along the trail of evolution is how each is able organize against the other who threatens their own existence. I'm sad to report this Earth can get along perfectly fine without any particular species including humans. Hell in the entire universe we cannot find another like us. So it seems we're not so special after all.

We've been given brains no other species has (including this disease). This places us at a great advantage over any threat that comes our way if we use our brains wisely and not give in to our negative inclinations becoming our own worst enemy. This disease just could be part of evolution in-so-much as the foolish will be eliminated through their own reckless acts during this epidemic. For you religious folks, you could say it's God's way of separating the wheat from the chaff. I prefer to think of it as another step along the ever continuing path of evolution. The way it's always been no matter how unpleasant.