warm colors

i have maintained from the beginning that this is nothing to treat in a cavalier fashion...caution...vigilance...prudence...apply one or all three...no one needs a respiratory disease...so distance yourself and wash your hands...be safe...i have also said from the start that i am having a great deal of difficulty squaring the numbers ( 533,416 out of 7.6 billion or so world population...a percentage of a percentage point ) with the paranoia, panic buying, media focus ( capitalization? ) and general pervasive stench of pestilential fear not seen since the seventeenth century...

everywhere you look graphics about covid-19 have warm or downright hot colors ( although i notice "the market" is in green...good times when the boodle from washington floods down the pipeline )...red! panic! danger! death and disorder! we need more guns! the mob will run amok in end times!! all effective marketing...and then...

i wander over to the cdc website...and once you get past the home page and the "updated" and the date in red, the colors turn much cooler and the advice they give is..."stay home: most people with covid-19 have mild illnesses and are able to recover at home without medical care."...like a cold, right? stay put...don't spread it around...the input is in serious conflict with itself here and you ( or, at least i ) have to wonder if anyone "in authority" has a clue...admittedly this is...like all plagues...an urban disease...needs a minimum population to sustain the virus pool...which is why new york and los angeles are having such a poor time of it...my county is mixed urban, suburban, rural with an estimated population of 496,005 and 31 cases of covid-19 confirmed ( although, since it is mostly mild, there may be a lot more of it around and no one knows )...a small portion of the population...and i do not have anything cogent to say about whom we should look to for precise information since, near as i can surmise, none exists beyond a clear number of confirmed cases...past that i believe we are on our own...so stay safe at home when you can...sanitize surfaces ( yesterday i saw bleach in the store again...no toilet paper or sanitizing wipes...but bleach will kill anything...including you...so be careful ) wash your hands...and have a nice cup of tea while you work through this...this is no time for panic.