Dying Dangerously

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And needlessly, you've heard about living dangerously. Risks; by being daring and dangerous lifestyle choices folks make.  Global coronavirus cases teach 83 million and 2 million deaths worldwide on #NewYearsEve.

Why are they increasingly willing to take risks in public, to cram themselves onto planes even though the virus is taking more lives and hospitalizing more Americans than ever before.

The advice, given by the German poet Goethe in Faust and by the philosopher Nietzsche in numerous writings, was much touted through the first half of the twentieth century.

However, in these past four years and especially for 2020 it is more often used critically. President Donald Trump’s deluded federal failures are striking. If he were intelligent, he would not continue to ignore the global pandemic, considering the Spanish Flu reportedly killed his grandfather, but since he doesn't care, or like to read and does not believe in science, that explains much of our existing national dilemma. 

The 1918 influenza pandemic was the most severe pandemic in recent history. It was caused by an H1N1 virus with genes of avian origin. Although there is no universal consensus regarding where the virus originated, it spread worldwide during 1918-1919.  In the #USA, it was first identified in military personnel in spring 1918. It is estimated that about 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population became infected. The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with  675,000 American deaths.

Meanwhile, today people keep dying for no reason The latest high-profile death was Republican Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow who died Tuesday at Ochsner LSU Health in Shreveport with COVID19.

Letlow was transferred from St. Francis Medical Center to the Ochsner LSU Health ICU on Dec. 23 and has been treated there since then.

Colorado health officials identified America's first confirmed case of a fast-spreading COVID-19 variant first identified in Great Britain. The strain is believed to be more contagious, and has been linked to a surge in cases in the UK, and has also spread to several other countries across the world.