Locked in for one more year!

It has been quite a while since I have updated this blog. This update is going to be a doozy. I promised a friend last year that I would stay in Korea for one more year. But due to the corona virus outbreak it looks like even if I wanted to leave for India this year...I'm locked down! An outbreak like this immunologically speaking means it will be around for a long time, as we do not have a vaccine, and it takes nearly a year or more to one develop the vaccine then more time is needed for distribution of said vaccine. This is all well good provided that the damned thing does not mutate. So we are looking at a virus that kills 15% of persons aged 60 and up. It is lethal because we have no immunity to this. I was waiting for something like this to happen. Actually, years ago when I studied microbiology, immunology, and cellular biology; I wondered what if we have a "Spanish influenza moment". Actually, influenza outbreak did not start in Spain. Spain had a free press that actually reported on the real effects of the pandemic at that time. Other nations covered it up until it was too late.

So here we are. In the bible God told man to spread out and become many. We have become many, but we have not "spread out". Kind of makes sense seeing the numerous outbreaks we have seen all over the world year in and year out. As of writing this the virus has infected FAR MORE than the 200000 cases that have been "recorded". The nations of the world today are doing the same thing that was done back in 1918 to the early 1920's. They are falsifying reports, under reporting, or filing patients under other illnesses to protect their markets.

The United States has done a terrible job with this outbreak. First telling Americans that they have to pay 1200-1500 dollars to get tested. Right away a large portion of the population will not report to hospital just to get hit with another bill.

Hong Kong gave each citizen 1200 dollars to spur the local economy. Seems kind of counter productive. A family suddenly finds that they have over 5000 bucks to spend...should they go shopping or should they stay at home. LOL

Anyways we are locked in for actually it little over a year because of this outbreak. I am very worried as we have older members in our families. Italy is especially hard hit at this time.

Oh I also lost 3 weeks of work due to this. Staying at home and basically doing nothing work related...is ok in the short term. Long term....it is tough.

/tata