Pestilence or just a pest?

    We are in the grips of a major catastrophe.  Whether you believe Covid 19 is really a disease of deadly import, China has attacked with a biological weapon or governments are merely using it for regime change, one thing is true: we have no idea where this will take us.

    Additionally, travel as we know it will be suspended for some time and so will this blog.  Travel is the basis for this evaluation of humanity and without it, there is no fodder for articles.

    As we begin this first pandemic in the media driven age - on the cutting edge of the hysteria our ratings driven news outlets are inciting, let's look at some statistics which will be swept under the table as this situation develops because they are just too inconvenient to acknowledge: 

160,000 - The number of United States deaths from the common flu in 2019 (NiH statistics).

650,000 - Approximate number of deaths worldwide, annually from flu related illness(WHO statistics).

659,000 - Approximate number of United States deaths annually from heart disease (CDC statistics).

17,900,000 - Approximate number of deaths worldwide annually from Heart disease (WHO statistics).

$363,000,000,000  

       Costs in services, medicines and lost productivity due to heart disease deaths in the United States for         

       the calendar year 2017 (CDC statistics).

The first chemos-bio suit invented by plague doctors in the Middle Ages.