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Chapter 7 The Rona.

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I'm sure you've heard of Coronavirus, COVID-19, or my favorite: The Boomer Remover. It's all over here, it's all over the news, it's causing another recession, it's killing some people, making people kill animals, making people kill eachother. Seriously. Look it up. If there's one thing I've learned, it's that people are much quicker to panic than I thought (kay, I'll spoil it - some guy killed his 8 year girlfriend and then himself because he thought she'd contracted the Rona. And if that wasn't dumb enough, neither of them even had it). Second thing I've learned is that I'm pretty dumb myself. In February, I was thinking: "This has a 98% survival rate. What's the big deal?" I did NOT consider the economic and social issues the fear would generate. And I didn't think of the 20% or so who get VERY sick, but don't die. I also didn't consider if these statistics may be off due to inaccurate reporti...