Realism

Well, I'm prepared to be wrong... but I'm still not prepared to panic

As mentioned to Basefinder the other day, I can understand all the shutdowns to slow the infection rate, in fact I kind of approve. I just don't approve of the hyped hysteria - which is probably the thing that has informed most of my comments about Covid19. It's not the end of the world as we know it... & not just because I feel fine...

What it will be, is another wake-up call & opportunity for co-operative action between countries, governments & societies in general to re-assess how we're going to co-exist on this planet. This opportunity will, no doubt, be missed. The Don has already tweeted that the 'Fake News Media & their ally the Democrats' are spreading misinformation about the virus... when anyone with half a brain knows it's Trump himself who's done... & is doing that. Classic 1984-style politics - & I don't mean Reagan or Thatcher... or do I? In this instance, maybe the word 'Orwellian' is more appropriate

Divide, conquer & rule over the wasteland... as long as you rule, right?

The best sign I've seen about this outbreak has been the one that says 'Every Disaster Movie Starts With The Government Ignoring A Scientist'

On a personal front, I found myself wondering this morning, which of my cow-orkers will be the one to bring Covid19 to the office...

... assuming it isn't me, of course

Passing Thought...

It's a quiet day at work, so I've been trawling the news sites, as usual. Reading this article reminded me of just how small we are in this universe

Man, that 4th day for God must have taken some overtime!!

Genesis 1:16 The Fourth Day
… 15 And let them serve as lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. And He made the stars as well. 17 God set these lights in the expanse of the sky to shine upon the earth...

Billions of galaxies, containing stars, planets, pulsars, neutron stars, black holes, dark matter, the entire elemental table (& probably a bunch more we haven't discovered yet), light, gravity...

If a divine being did all that in a day, surely he could spare a microsecond to take care of some business on the planet he filled with creatures made in his own image? Or did he just abandon this one as a faulty experiment & started again somewhere else...?

If you believe in that sort of thing, of course... not sure I do. I wish science could be a bit more definitive about the universe, but I suppose we've only been studying it scientifically for the last few hundred years, once the Church stopped persecuting astronomers, so I should learn to be patient - these things take time. Trouble is, time on a galactic, or universal, scale, is not something I have...

Sometimes I wish I didn't have the time, or inclination, to think about these things...