Coronavirus Precautions Considered - Enough Or Not Enough?

Flag of China

The Coronavirus has spread around Asia.


This pretty little flag is the flag of Hong Kong.



Some people have argued that, 'A lot of fuss is made over a few deaths.'

I have seen posts saying:
'More die from alcohol,' and
 'More die from road accidents,' and
'more die from flu'.

Yes, firstly we have loads of laws in place to try to stop these.

We already have countries with prohibition for alcohol, drink driving laws, tax on alcohol, points on licenses for drink driving, flu jabs.it is all our effects which reduce the effects of all the other causes.
Experience has shown that we can reduce deaths by taking precautions, other prevention, or punishment.

Secondly, the latest deaths are not instead but in addition to all the other deaths.

I have also heard:
You are going to die anyway;
It is only the elderly;
It hasn't killed you yet (therefore why wash hands).

If you took this attitude, you would never bother with hospitals for anybody or anything.

What is on my mind is:

1 Nobody has said how long you remain ill until you recover.

2 And are there any after effects? This is very relevant. People argue that not many are dead.

Polio
Relatively few died from polio, but a US president was in a wheelchair all his life from catching it. the paralytic illness of  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) began in 1921 when the future President of the United States was 39 years old.



Measles
Measles might not kill you. But you could end up deaf-blind like Helen Keller who had either scarlet fever or meningitis. You could be weakened and succumb to the next round of flu.

We are lucky today that modern science can identify what's wrong with us. Although that's not much consolation when they tell us that it could be a year before a cure or vaccine is developed.

1918 Flu
The 1918 flu killed the young who were not immune, and killed more than WWI.

Be vigilant.

Useful Websites
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Singapore

About The Author
Angela Lansbury
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See The London Bridge at Lake Havasu in Arizona in the USA - and the statue of the man who bought and moved it

London Bridge at Lake Havasu, USA. Photo from Wikipedia. Public domain.

Problem
I keep reading self-improvement speeches and articles and books about imagining things and then making them happen. But is it possible?

Answer
Yes. I remember the story of the man who imagined the city of Tel Aviv and drew a mark on the sandy beach. When asked by journalists where the city would be, he said, 'Here!'

Now I've read another similar story about a visionary. The man who bought London Bridge. Millionaire McCulloch with his business partner Wood.

The weirdest thing is not that McCulloch brought a bridge all the way over from London, England, to America, nor even that he looked out at the view and imagined a city which he started building. The weirdest thing was that he bought a bridge when he did not have a river to put the bridge across.

He had to get to see the President Lyndon Johnson of the USA and persuade the man to grant permission to divert a river. People were opposed to to idea of allowing a river to be diverted. I mean, you don't want to set a precedent, do you! Allow one person to divert a river, then everybody will want to do it.

You often hear the question, which came first, the thicken or the egg. you don't normally hear the question, which came first, the river or the bridge.

Let's get down to the nitty-gritty of what the tourist can see. The city of Lake Havusu, which was created in the middle of nowhere. (Doesn't that apply to everywhere in the USA? For example: New York, Washington DC, Las Vegas.)

Apparently it is a myth that the bridge was bought by mistake. They buyer knew which bridge he was buying.
UK
If you want to see Tower Bridge in London, England, it is still there and you can take tours.
USA
London Bridge in Lake Havasu city in the USA. The city has a museum. Several hotels including one, Heat Hotel, with views of the bridge.

What to see:
London Bridge in Lake Havasu, USA.
The statues of McCulloch and Wood together at the end of the bridge.
Tower bridge, London, England

Useful Websites
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_bridge_that_crossed_an_ocean
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Lake_Havasu_City
https://golakehavasu.com/activities/attractions/london-bridge/
https://golakehavasu.com/activities/attractions/london-bridge/london-bridge-fun-facts/
visittheusa.co.uk
virginatlantic.com

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.