Do you ‘Got IT’?

Besides what everyone is saying about washing your hands and staying away from everyone, do you have ‘IT’?

They say, as they do, the symptoms are fever, chills, dry coughs and gasping for air. These are not clinical terms but you get the overall picture.

If you’ve ever had a cold or the flu or bronchitis or asthma you know some of the symptoms. This time is not that but that first cough will send you to the ER.

Some of the symptoms I’ve read about are losing smell and taste.

Now I can tell you it is now springtime in Virginia and the aroma is the most excellent. The flowers are blooming, the greenery is fresh and without all the traffic, the air is clear. I use the sense of scent when I ride to enjoy every block of different flowers and trees and passing perfume but don’t like Mondays. That is trash day.

I haven’t eaten anything remarkable recently but do know the difference between peanut butter cookies and dark red kidney beans. Too many beans will remind me of the other scent.

Believe cleanliness is next to Godliness, but I’m not getting close to the pearly gates. I do know the Tummy Temple is cleaner than it has ever been.

About now everyone is starting to sneeze and wheeze with the yellow carpet and wondering, “Is this IT?” We are so frantic now that any cough will make everyone around back away to social distancing space.

It might be IT or it just might be the season saying ‘Hello’. If you found a test and took it, what would you do if IT were positive? There is no vaccine or magic potion so the recommendation is to go home, get some rest, drink plenty of liquids and if IT gets worse, call an ambulance. The ambulance will pick you up; drive you to the local medical center to be evaluated. If they declare you have IT, you will be wheeled into quarantine isolation hooked up to a breathing machine to die. I think that is the process.

No one has posted all the data of how many of those who are connected to air survival or how many of those who stay at home die.

When the bell rings and we can all come out to play are we safe? Can we breathe the air the same as we used to do? Do we shake the hand of a neighbor or hug a distant relative the way we did before?

Everyone is suspect now. It might me you? It might be them? It might be me?

Now that is social distancing from anxiety and fear has become the norm what will happen to community?

The next phase doesn’t look good.

Wash your hands.