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PLEASE DO NOT LOWER THIS TO THE POLITICAL GUTTER, Ideally this will trigger thoughtful insights on our Personal feelings.

While watching a movie “The Sea Wolf” starring Edward G Robinson one line jumped out at me:”There is a price that no man will pay to live”.

This got me thinking about the present times. Looking at what’s going on and what some say will come, what others say is necessary, potential shortages, uncertain future etc.. what is ‘THAT ‘ price?

We are each different, different: ages, backgrounds, life experiences, familial situations, health situations, income levels, spiritually and psychologically. But I believe we each have limitations. Have you thought about it?

What’s your ‘price”?

Soul Dr. Loc: Beautiful Shenandoah Valley

I don't think I would want to live if ALL my freedoms were taken away from me.

will

SMPhotography Loc: Pawleys Island, SC

I have no price. I was a clinical microbiologist for over 20 years before I retired and never in my career have I seen unfounded hysteria like has been the case here. Not with SARS, MERS or H1N1. I have not changed my daily routine one iota and I am completely fine.

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Perhaps you feel that this is “unfounded hysteria”, but the over 75K Americans who have died {most of whom were unknowingly infected} thus far would not agree.

Since both my wife and I are retired, we will live at home - going out once a week for groceries - until the experts agree it is time to resume our ‘regular’ life. Until then, we will stay home most of the time, although she can participate in various on-line activities, and I have been taking around forty photos a month {close my usual total}.

She misses hugging her friends and I would like to wander more with my camera, but this safety is not a big price for us to pay, certainly much lower than our health.

gtilford Loc: Woodstock, Ontario, Canada

I was diagnosed with heart disease almost 10 years ago now, was diagnosed with kidney disease over 20 years ago, it most likely contributed to the heart disease and I was diagnosed with thyroid disease back in 1984. I have had 42 surgical procedures in my lifetime, have been told by a couple doctors over the years to make sure my business is in order because I would not be going home. I have been battling chronic pain and fibromyalgia for the last 2 years and yet I am still here, even though at times I have wished I wasn't.

My wife is an essential worker, my daughter is an essential worker and so are my brother and his wife, so where would I go hide from this virus.

I truly believe we all have a time and if it is our time then we shall pass, so a couple times a week I drive 10 minutes outside of town to walk the gravel roads of my area both for exercise and to see what I can photograph. I do not worry about contacting the virus from those around me my only fear would be if I was the cause of passing it on to someone else, hence why I take my walks alone out on the back country roads.

Will my life stop because of this virus, hell no because I have never in my 60 years let one of my situations cause me fear of passing and I will not allow that now. Life goes on and I hope I am still here to see sunsets and sunrises once we find a way to put a stop to covid-19

Boris77

This is just a little piece of the price of Overpopulation and Climate Degradation.
The roller coaster ride may contain a few thrills, but it is basically going downhill.
Most of us are simply going along for the ride, with little awareness of the big picture.
Boris

rcarol

The problem that I see about "relying on the experts to agree that it is time to resume our activities" is in which expert do you want to believe as there seems to be little consensus among the so-called experts. The other issue to consider is whether the experts are being pressured to encourage a sense of safety because the public is just plain tired of being sequestered.

jcave Loc: Cecilia, Kentucky

I think that the price we are willing to pay to live is directly related to our ability and willingness to adapt to change. Those unable or unwilling, throw in the towel and go home.

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.”

Kmgw9v Loc: Miami, Florida

“Why, if there is anything in supply and demand, life is the cheapest thing in the world. There is only so much water, so much earth, so much air; but the life that is demanding to be born is limitless. Nature is a spendthrift. Look at the fish and their millions of eggs. For that matter, look at you and me. In our loins are the possibilities of millions of lives. Could we but find time and opportunity and utilize the last bit and every bit of the unborn life that is in us, we could become the fathers of nations and populate continents. Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.”
― Jack London, The Sea Wolf

John N Loc: HP14 3QF Stokenchurch, UK

I'm not a clinical microbiologist but I'm thinking more along these lines. I seem to be but one of a few who take a more laid back approach to the pandemic.

Architect1776 Loc: In my mind

Total freedom to take the risk over any government oppression.
Called the pioneer spirit which has been lost in most Americans.

2Dragons Loc: The Back of Beyond

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." Ronald Reagan

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast