Have you not read the social distancing is to save lives? Actually when we read closely it is all about not overwhelming the system with sick people and “flattening the curve,” or essentially having the same number of sick And possibly dying people spread out over a longer time period.

How often does it need to be reminded that the only ways to “save lives” are to come up with vaccines, better methods of helping the critically ill to survive or to become immune to the virus.

Social distancing will “flatten the curve” and that is a fact.

However, all this media attention is actually causing people to be really afraid the apocalypse has arrived, as in dooms day, WWV and all those other Orwelling scenarios.

Like all of us your response is showing the stress and fear which is actually being promoted by our leadership. “It is going to be worse before it gets better,” what a great thing to say in a time of fear. What happened to and where are the great leaders of history who said things like Churchill, Patton, and any others you might remember?

These days we are fat in fear and very short on true leaders.

Very sad days, and yet humanity will survive.