A headline story on last night’s eleven-o-clock news in South Florida was about a 95-year-old man who “died from the coronavirus.” That was the screaming headline. Then after a commercial break the reporters explained that the man was 95, lived in a nursing home, and had heart disease, lung disease, and diabetes and the actual cause of death was bacterial pneumonia. Nevertheless, the blaring headline was that he succumbed to the coronavirus.
Living in South Florida one becomes very familiar with the routine, every-day danger of the elderly in nursing homes like this who catch a cold, the cold develops into pneumonia, and then the worst happens. What’s different this year is the well-planned international hysteria campaigns to accompany the cold season by the CDC and WHO.
7:27 am on March 18, 2020
