Dec 10, 2022

The sounds of coughing echoed across the hillside. More and more people are sick again. Now that covid is in retreat, all the former illnesses in life are back.

With a vengeance.

I’ve had a cough for over a month now. And I know many other people suffering from some malady or other. After two years of masking up and washing hands suddenly everyone is sick.

But it’s not covid…

It’s the flu, a cold, and a cough. Hospitals are being overloaded by cases of young and old. You’d think we would have learned from all this time being apart. Our immune systems seem unprepared for all the germs we have been suddenly exposed to. 

Or is it just the fact all this stuff is being reported much closer since the start of the pandemic two and a half years ago? I don’t remember the before times clearly. All I know is that our healthcare system seems ill-prepared to deal with all the viral infections invading our world.

Is it because we have lowered our immunities so much for the last couple of years? Or is our health care system that unprepared for what ails us? 

I think it is a bit of both.

Our internal physical systems were kept sterilized for the last 30-plus months. And now that everyone is back mingling with each other, bugs have spread rampant. And our external healthcare systems are failing. But back in the day people would keep their kids at home rather than take them to emergency rooms across the country. In Ontario, they are reporting wait times of over eleven hours to get medical help in a hospital. Eleven hours…

How can our systems fail so badly?

Something must be done. But this too shall pass. Our general immunities will catch up, will our healthcare systems catch up as well?

That would be the hope.

Some people are calling for a return to masks, a return to measures we took to control covid. I think that is only a stop-gap measure. In the end, we must be able to fight illness with the power nature provided us with.

Our immune system.

But we can do a lot of things to help our immune system. That includes washing hands and avoiding others when we are sick. 

The best thing would be a return to common sense…