As a baby boomer I grew up during the cold war. In grade school we participated in “duck & cover” air raid drills. We crawled under our wooden desks to protect us against nuclear blast – yeah really. Parents talked about building bomb shelters. I was born into this reality, so it was my normal, I didn’t lay awake at night fearful that the end coming.

But now – CV – is a real game changer.

Sobering thoughts
The pandemic won’t end until enough of the population is immune to the disease (at least 60 percent, experts say) either by surviving it and becoming immune, which may or may not happen – or through a yet to be made vaccination - still a year away.

Overwhelmed hospitals will be making critical decisions – who gets the life saving resources and who doesn’t. For anyone infected, survival could be in question.

Not to get political, but with over 85,000 CV cases in our country now, the message from the White House is to minimize the pandemic – contradicting their own experts – and failing to mobilize all available assets. That’s a problem.

OK – I admit I am now spooked.
I maintain physical distance from others.
I handle incoming mail with pliers & let it sit for days before opening.
I shop once a week for food wearing an N-95 mask, safety glasses, ball cap and gloves – all discarded to my garage and left untouched for a week - until the next shopping trip. (wife thinks I look ridiculous – I don’t care)
Food & it’s packaging are washed or discarded immediately, excessive hand washing during & after.
I carry hand sanitizer and use it any time I touch something that’s been touched by someone else.

As a senior, I am doing everything possible to protect myself and anyone I come into contact with. This should be the new normal for everyone.

Sorry, Larry ! Just not my type
of humor ! Come the old school comedians, I liked Uncle Milty,
Bob Hope, Buddy Hackett,
Jackie Gleason, Red Skelton !
Warner cartoons include Bugs, Daffy, Foghorn Leghorn, the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote;
for Disney it's Donald Duck,
Goofy, Chip and Dale, Pluto !
The old Warner's WWII training
cartoons like Private Snafu and
propaganda cartoons with Bugs, and/or Daffy vs Hitler, Mussolini,
Hirohito and all the Japanese forces in general; one in
particular was called 'Gremlins from the Kremlin' about a bunch
of Cossack-looking gremlins harassing the hell out of Hitler while he's on a bombing run !
The older, double-entendre
humor was (and still is) some
of the best and funniest; the
newer, PC cartoons are just so
incredibly bland that they are totally lame and lacking in
humor !