Those
of you who understand
how
to calculate probability
have an advantage over me,
a right-brained (or is it
left?) type
who
can lose his way and sometimes fall asleep
when
numbers and symbols are involved,
each one laying claim
to a particular undeniable
authority
which, when joined with the
others,
can
lead the way to, say, curing cancer,
or
putting Armstrong on the Moon,
and
now they have proven that every one of us--
let me say that again—every.
one. of. us.
will lose someone we know
to this virus ravaging the
globe.
In a way, I like the way this
is being put.
Saying every one of us will
lose someone we know
is a clever way of leaving to
our imagination
that because everyone will
lose someone they know
we
have more than a few chances to
be that someone.
It's at times like this I
realize
my imagination is not my best
friend.
m.d.
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Wow! This is great Mathew. Terrifying, isn't it, when a nightmarish scenario read somewhere in a novel comes true?
ReplyDeleteThanks, Neeru. Here's hoping we survive this living novel unscathed!
DeleteI have decided it is best not to think about the percentages, because in the end it is like everything else, that small percentage could include you and your loved ones or not. It feels like when I was pregnant. I knew that problems were unlikely but that does not make them any less scary.
ReplyDeleteI hear you, Tracy. Angela was 42 when she was pregnant with Sarah, and we were concerned that our ages could adversely affect the baby. The amniocentesis showed no abnormality, but we couldn't be certain until Sarah was born healthy and with none of the dreaded congenital problems that can affect babies with older parents. Sarah is out your way now, working for Netflix in L.A., altho there is no filming going on right now obviously.
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