Let's go with the metaphor of a hill. If we plot age on the horizontal axis, 40 was the middle and past 40 was the peak and vertically one would be over the hill past it. We are charting vitality on the vertical axis.
The trouble with that thinking, overflows to many MANY areas. A life does not cease in vitality at 80 any longer. So, middle age is both later and longer.
It is likely insensitive of me to say that our entire system is still working on the 40 year peak model largely due to good Healthcare and many people no longer vital enough to contribute but still hanging on and taxing the system. Cue a virus that only targets fatally those who would have already ceased to exist anyway. (I feel bad saying that because I am not affected, but reasonably, if it were me I would prefer to pass on that cling to an existence no longer intended for me)
I just do not get it...people act like it's the plague when even my parents and most everyone I love has had and survived COVID. Sure it is bad, so is starving, or not having a shelter to live in, but the same people who do all the outward motions of preventing this virus, do nothing when it comes to say seat-belt or texting while driving is involved, and aren't more lives at stake there?
OK got that out of my system. Probably time to get off the computer and experience life a bit today, instead of just thinking 🤔.
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