The next two years remind me of when you might be climbing a mountain or hiking 20 to 50 miles within a given period of time. Planning is required to make sure you have food and supplies enough but not so much it weighs you down to the point where you cannot hike or function without having muscle spasms and having muscles seize on you to the point where you must immobilize yourself with a muscle relaxant which I had to do one night coming down out of the Himalayan Mountains with my family in 1986 while trekking there.
So, it is about preparing for an endurance contest that not everyone will survive mentally or physically.
What we are facing I'm concerned that the biggest problem for most people is interrupted supply chains. In other words getting enough healthy food and water could be a problem here in the U.S. and around the world. But, that being said I think the U.S. because of our organizational capacities and general wealth and knowledge will tend to come through this much better than most nations will on earth.
So, mostly it is preparing ourselves for the long haul. If we have a general idea of what is coming then we can prepare to face it like adults.
It's not much different than an earthquake or Tsunami or Hurricane that goes on for 1 to 2 years time folks. So, we will prepare in many ways in the same way only for a longer period to survive this.
And knowing that there will be casualties both in the walking wounded and those who lose their lives will be difficult but if you are an adult you might have already been through some difficult stuff already that prepared you for now.
I can remember coming back through Lake Tahoe with my parents from Mt. Shasta back to Southern California and Glendale where we lived then through a forest fire. The fire had cut off electricity to a town so the service station owner got a gasoline generator to run his gas pumps going. But, he only sold each person 5 Gallons each to get to the next town. I remember looking at the fire heading towards this town and being about 9 years old and scared that we might burn up. But, even though there was fire along the road out of town burning right next to us we survived just with water in cloth to filter the air to breathe better and we made it to the next town and could buy more gas out of range of the fire.
Another time I remember before I could swim being taken out on an inflatable mattress out to sea when I was 8 years old with my 15 year old female cousin and being scared because we were several blocks out to sea and were taken there by a rip tide at Zuma Beach near the Los Angeles area. 5 lifeguards came out to get us or we would have been lost then the 4 of us kids from me 8 to my two male cousins 13 to my female cousin 15. I couldn't swim either so I was terrified of drowning at that time.
I told the lifeguards I couldn't swim and they looked scared and told me to hold onto the orange floats. Then when the 5 foot waves smashed me against the sand on the bottom of the ocean they told me to hold my breath which was the first time I had had to do this in an emergency so I was very scared and thought I was going to die. But, I didn't die. I survived that day. But, even to this day I have to fight back panic if I go over my head in the ocean from that experience. It's true I became a surfer and a SCUBA diver and good on a jet ski and all that. But, I still have to fight panic whenever I first go over my head in the ocean (water deeper than I can touch the bottom in the ocean).
So, some experiences are so terrifying we have to live with the consequences for life even though we do survive them.
Coronavirus for all the survivors likely will be like this too. We will remember all the Americans and people all over the world that died and mourn and pray for them for years to come. Just like World War II was the traumatic high point of many people's lives, this likely will be that for the next 50 to 75 years for all mankind from all the people dying that we will pray for as long as we live.
By God's Grace
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