Who says I am acting leisurely? I travel between five hotels in an urban regional hub and am around the traveling public and staff all day. It is only when I get home after an hour long commute that I am able to lock the gate and go into the bunker, so to speak. I've been taking obsessive precautions since early January on top of my usual cleanliness and I make sure the people around me are doing the same to the best of their ability. My previous employer almost fired me because I was badgering them so much and calling corporate about the impending virus from China that nobody wanted to pay attention to. I take it very seriously and have been doing so for a long time. But it's a virus and you can't hide from it. You just have to do your best. Eventually you're going to get sick and taking care of yourself beforehand is the best remedy.
My number is one percent of the population dead; or three million annually from COVID before I begin to worry about things getting out of hand. Given death rates for seasonal cold and flu, heart disease, cancer, accidents, et cetera... I'm not that worried. We do our best and try to protect those with comorbidities. Beyond that though I'm not about to tell people they can't go out and earn a living; that's a bridge too far for me. People disagree with me on that though and that's alright. But I believe that people need a purpose and it is not within the scope of the state (conceptual) to take that purpose away for any reason. Different states (as in US states) can enact different policies if they so desire; in my state I am not in agreement with what the leadership has done. But then again, in my state the Supreme Court has come down on my side of the argument and made shutdowns unconstitutional so I am reasonably pleased so long as the governor doesn't outright ignore the judiciary like is happening in Michigan.
Even at a state-level though, I think it may be too wide a scope for enforcement and shutdown policy should be handled by counties to limit the economic damage of the shutdowns if they are deemed necessary. The recent Supreme Court (national) decision regarding unfair application of COVID restrictions in New York has been especially interesting to watch. I think they came to the correct conclusion on that one. If a standard is going to be set, then at the very least there should be a fair application of said standard and not selective enforcement and variable degrees of enforcement for specific locations. As a sidenote, the vast majority of my angst toward anything anymore usually comes down to the unfair or uneven application and enforcement of a standard for one group versus another. Our friends in the whore media go to great lengths to get us all angry at each other and scared to death of the world around us. But now I'm wandering off topic.
You take your vitamin D3 and your multivitamin and stay hydrated throughout the day and you're going to be sailing way ahead of most people. Wash your hands and stay positive. And talk to people! Maybe you already do, you seem like a nice, talkative person. More people need to talk to people. It really brightens up the day.
Good work getting yourself down to one cigarette per day. It wasn't easy for me to quit either; but I'll tell you it's no joke that you more or less immediately start feeling healthier after about a week of not smoking and it only keeps getting better. If anything, I need to cut McDonald's out of my diet. But I don't think that is going to happen. A cheeseburger with extra pickles and extra onions and a large order of fries is the elixir from God.
