Whit and TR you are welcome and blessings to all. My daughter, (Heather, she is on too) and I were talking. She mentioned something very similar to Geri’s thoughts. The service lines are very strained with certain product lines being completely out of availability (totally not made). I know for my healthcare organization, we have pulled personal protective equipment (ppp) out of the public reach for the safety of our staff (John Q public was literally running into our hospitals and medical practices and grabbing masks, sanitizer. Just craziness! You are correct when you stated, this is not over! Although this virus is not that bad (no worse than the regular flu), for the majority of humans, the media has filtered out SO much miss information to create a world wide panic. The beauty is that the human race is waking up to realize their own mortality and many are coming a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus. As Paul says (to paraphrase) ... whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed .... what man promoted for evil, God will use for good (the spread of the gospel). As Amir tweeted “be encouraged, the virus was made in China, it won’t last long....” loved that! It is time for the church to rise up and be examples, pray, seek out your neighbor who may be hurting, give food and aide to those who are without work because of voluntary quarantine. Think of the kids who are out of school now! Pray they have opportunity to step away from TV, video games and hear or read about Jesus. Phil 4:7 :prayer-hands: Come Lord, your servant waits! Thanks..........I agree.........I wonder on this virus though......maybe you have better insight. For education sake I watched the PBS American Experience 1918 flu show online. What made that flu so deadly was it kept changing in each host and the doughboys took a mild(er) form to Europe, but when they came home it had changed and changed some more until it was much more powerful and like a category five hurricane. I wonder if something like that is going to happen here. I am not the least bit anxious or nervous about anything. Truthfully, i have not sung anything sadder than "zippity doo dah" for the last couple of days. Not because people are sick, but because it has the potential to make us that much closer. Plus my Presbyterian faith tells me that God's got this........God is sovereign.......and none of us go through life like tennis shoes in a dryer. B-) Another aspect is this is all in the spiritual realm. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." I have believed for quite some time that there is a battle in the spiritual realm that we cannot see. I believe that is what happened to the president in the impeachment and I believe that is what happened to Kavanaugh. Something a lot bigger and evil...was working which was much bigger than just the facts as they were presented. This just feels different. I did not feel this way with SARS, or Bird FLu, or H1N1. This seems to have a deeper meaning..........what that is may have to be borne out over time but it sure feels different. In all that the Lord does, all I can do is marvel. He never asks for my permission nor does He always explain to me His ways! Some call this faith. I just say that I'm not as smart as He is! Indeed opportunities for accepting and drawing near to the Lord can always be found. The Lord sees to that. All we need to do is to open the door to His every possible opportunity. TR Whit - a virus (any virus) by its very nature is designed to mimic the host cells. The body then will recognize it as self and not unite an attack against it. This gives the virus time to invade the rest of the body. My best advice besides the previous is to boost your own fighting ability. Hydrate well, H2O is awesome, green teas are great, increasing vitamin C (be careful not to overdue this, diarrhea is never a great side affect), I personally love Braggs Apple Cider vinegar. I drink a teaspoon twice a day (keep it low as changing the bodies normal pH is dangerous), and gargle with it as needed. I use echinacea at times ( never go too long, can cause the body to turn on self). Exercise, this helps pump the blood to move the sludge. For those who have respiratory history, should do deep breathing exercise twice daily or more, same for the elderly, move unnecessary creation up and out of lungs, plus we stop using those lower lungs and they start hardening for lack of this use. I get sick very rarely, typically not in years. Lots of non, expensive stuff to do! I have never believed we should just be a band-aide society to cover up, its best to get to the reason why and fix that if possible. My opinions only.
Today is National Day of Prayer for North America, and we as watchers and totally aware of the times, should bind together to pray to the a Lord of the harvest, to send forth laborers into His harvest....reap the lost, precious Lord, that the Father will be Glorified through Christ.
I had a great discussion with one of the epidemiologist who sat near me for one meeting with the state health department— her comments were very helpful— this virus is not even as strong as the regular flu. The only thing this virus has going for it is that it survives longer (14 days) in the host, therefore it spreads to more people. BUT, she affirmed, clean surfaces with normal cleaning products, wash hands (20 seconds), cover your cough. Many people will and already carry the corno viral bug, but may never be affected.
If you have another health disease (diabetes, heart condition, respiratory compromise, immunodeficiency), you need to be careful. Your sustainability is greater. This is SARS-2.
You see our bodies have a wonderfully designed and amazing attack system known to clinicians as the complement protein C cascade. This amazing system is a group of “warrior” cells that begin the fight against foreign invaders. Sometimes, things go wrong in the body, the body fights against itself in disease states like lupus.
As a holistic clinician, I could go on and on with how we have taken such a wonderful temple and destroyed it with lifestyle choices, but I won’t 
This virus is no different, because a virus by its very nature can mutate, it makes it difficult to develop any cure. We can develop a type of the RNA strand of a virus to help break down the DNA surface shell that would allow the body to initiate a reaction. Once this occurs, your body builds immunity (recognition) of the virus. There are so many different “strands” of the common cold, therein is why we will still catch it :wacko:
still praying - Lord come quickly :prayer-hands:
