A bad cold

Covid-19.

Sounds awful.

In fact is just a bad cold.

Doctors who aren't shouting politically motivated "pandemic" appear to agree that the new corona-virus is just a slightly more virulent form of the common cold - also a corona-virus.

From casual observation, other than the vulnerable due to age or illness the only people seriously affected appear to be smokers and those who live among heavy smokers. i.e. those with lungs already under attack.

The main danger to the world appears to be not the virus but the the politicians attempting to use the virus to advance their cause, most often to have more and more say over the lives of other people.

Most of these are, of course, from the left and NZ's current PTPM is no exception. Thankfully she's as incompetent at this as she is at everything that requires more than a tea-towel and a frown.

The cancel everything crowd, however, are having a field day, getting sports events, conventions and in some places, all public gatherings, stopped.

Here in Godzone the next thing I suspect to be advanced will be the suspending of the September elections because they might cause NZers to gather together to rubbish wanna-be and existing pollies - a good thing ;-)

Keep washing your hands (that's healthy), wear a mask IF YOU FEEL ILL and otherwise continue life as you've always led it (with the exception of voting ACT from now on) and only then will we, the people of first NZ and then the world, overcome this version of the common cold.