CORONA VIRUS

We are living in historic times. They will be talking about the Great Pandemic of 2020 for hundreds of years. For me, the COVID-19 virus hit home when last night most sports as we know them were either cancelled or postponed.

Luckily, no one close to me- Holly, my family, etc.. has gotten the virus yet. But they say it's like the calm before the storm. It's coming.

For me, since I'm now 63 and susecptible to pneumonia and bronchitis, I must be careful. We all should be careful. We must lead our lives, just use common sense for a while.

Hopefully this virus threat goes on for a few weeks before things get back to normal. But will anything ever be "normal" again after this?

Life will go on. The games, meaningless as they are in the big picture, will resume. But this threat from a deadly virus will linger. Questions arise. If the virus disappears with warm weather, will it return in the fall? Is this going to be the norm now in our world?

Maybe washing our hands and being very vigilente about it will be a positive out of this.

The NBA shut down last night, for the time being. The NHL and possible Major League Baseball will do the same. Sports is entertainment, an outlet from the reality of life. To take that away, let alone all the monitary issues that goes with it, is devastating to our society.

Life will eventually return to the world we know. We gace a few bumpy weeks. Everyone's savings are taking a hit, thanks to the rapidly falling stock markets.

Politically, President Trump  hung his hat on the economy. With the stock market tanking, along with  the failed government's reaction to the crisis, puts Trumps' reelection chances in jeopardy. His hope is that things are back to normal by the fall. If not, he is in trouble.

Easter and spring are just around the corner. But nothing seems to matter other than the cOVID-19 bug. It's all people are talking about. We may need a diversion. Sports may not be an opeion.

One thing that wouldn't hurt is prayer. The world is going through frightful, uncertain times. It's just an American event- we are all in this together, the entire world.

Hopefully soon I'll be able to blog again about mundane stuff like sports, music, American Idol, disability issues and other items. Until then, nothing else really matters.