This sounds horrible but I can just feel it in my bones. I predict a wave of covid and other diseases unlike no other because of the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in my area..
There hasn't been a hurricane like this since 1913 and I hate to think people might soon say the same about this pandemic...
If I may quote Mark Honigsbaum's The Pandemic Century: "The precise genetic identities of pandemic strains prior to 1900 are lost to history, but in the twentieth century there have been three major shifts.The first was the H1N1 Spanish flu virus that emerged in 1918, or possibly a little earlier (by comparing older and more recent strains of the virus and running molecular clocks backward in time, evolutionary biologists suggest the virus may have acquired its avian genes somewhere between 1913 and 1917" ...Of course in our present time, meaning right now, we have an even better well documented accounts of a mutating virus circulating amongst our political heroes, superstars and performing musicians..and of course our farmers face a virus from livestock of many sorts from cows, chickens to fur farms..
...as well intentioned and loving and giving people are, I see no masks or precautions being taken for covid during hurricane relief in my area whatsoever...no public awareness or public encouragement about covid precautions whatsoever.. (I'm sure victims of the hurricane don't want to hear this but I live amongst ye and something very similar to the Spanish flu could erupt. Because the virus was new, very few people, if any, had some immunity to the disease. From 1918 to 1919, the Spanish flu infected an estimated 500 million people globally and took more lives than four wars added together so who is bold enough to say covid won't take more lives than this one hurricane as life shattering as it is for so many when all we have to do is wear a mask?) Hurricanes are devastating.. diseases are devastating as well but we have the chance to prevent disease while we work and rebuild for one another the best we can.
Now displaced people gathering and sharing in close quarters & shelters..
... local churches are letting people drop their kids off all day ... if people don't get sick in that packed church of kids getting babysat all day it will be miracle.
...With Whoopi Goldberg possibly sick again..
all this while tons of politicians are still coming down with covid.. everyday rock bands that play to football stadiums of people packed together like sardines, cancelling shows due to personal "illness".. it will be highly unlikely our maskless first responders and the people they are helping from the hurricane don't get sick.
I hope I'm wrong but if something is going to make people sick it will be this hurricane relief situation. This event has "super spreader " written all over it.. a recipe for more disaster possibly a recipe for a new variant... I'm sure my advice will fall on deaf ears... Time will tell of course.I hope no one gets sick during their goodwill and hard work helping one another. Bless your hearts,
The Masked Man