Writing

 If you are writing only for yourself you can write more honestly because you aren't planning on sharing this with anyone else possibly.

The point of writing stuff down (or videoing yourself through your Iphone) for example, is to understand yourself and your relationship to the world better.

We are all having to some degree stuff our emotions. Like, for example, I had a minor surgery to remove a cyst on my chest by a desrmatologist. He asked me "What do you miss the most since Covid?" and my answer I was able to say quite honestly was: "I miss going to Hawaii with my wife and my friends and snorkeling.' which is true.

So, I have basically given up for now going on any plane to anywhere. What that means for me is I'm not going to Scotland, England, Ireland, Mainland Europe or Hawaii. 

I don't really have to get on a plane to go anywhere in the lower 48 states or to Alaska or to Canada because I can drive there.

However, then I have to stay in a hotel which is kind of iffy at best because of Omicron. I no longer go to movies mostly because I'm 73 years old and 75% of everyone dying of covid is over 65.

So, people that want to stay alive are all being very careful especially if they are over 45 years of age simply because 96% of the people dying of Any variation of Covid are over 45 years of age. (21% from 45 to 65 and 75% from 65 on up.

So, the people not worrying about Covid who aren't dying that much are the under 45 crowd who only have a 4% chance of dying of Covid statistically.

The point of writing down what you are experiencing is so you can have your head on straight when all this ends (if it ends).

I was talking to my son about this today and he was speaking historically about pandemics and things like Polio and AIDS and things like this. We both realized it was only about 1960 to 1980 when we really had no real plagues or pandemics here in the U.S. to worry about. IF you go through history most of the time there was always something you had to worry about that might kill you as a pandemic and plague except for about 1960 to 1980 and soon after 1980 AIDS started happening.

So, what is happening now is more normal for the world if you look at the last several thousand years of pandemics and plagues and all that.

And even 1960 to 1980 we are ONLY talking about maybe Europe and the U.S. basically being mostly completely free of all pandemics and plagues during that era. (AIDS began in the early 1980s here in the U.S.) and this changed everyone's behavior dramatically and people stopped having as many sexual partners as they had had in the 1960s and 1970s because they didn't want to die of AIDS.