It may sound incredible that just a little more than 0.0017% of the world population, of more than 7 billion inhabitants on this planet, has died of coronavirus. Sounds like a ridiculous number considering that the major cause of mortality worldwide is cardiovascular disease, heart problems, at 32%, followed by cancer at 16%.

It seems ridiculous when what we see in the media and on social networks, is world wide quarantine with confinement and working from home bringing a downturn in the economy in order to be safe at home and avoid contaminating others and protecting ourselves. It does seem silly, but I do see the ways of "lock down" from a point of view of prevention. Even though the probabilities of dying are low if there are no adequate provisions for care and treatment, infection can still spread and cause chaos.

And whoever did not take these forecasts to heart in time, and act upon them, would still have set us up to have a problem of global magnitude, resulting in miles of sick people, all at the same time and no one being able to go to work, or with sick children and still no one would not be able to work. This would have affected the economy, and caused a paralysis of the planet, in the same way.

“And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!” L. Ronald Hubbard www.thewaytohappiness.org @waytohappinesstampa