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Do You Choose to Live Your Life in Fear or Reason?
Living in fear is a choice — even when it doesn’t feel like it.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a surreal experience. And it’s changed the world — not for the better.
Maybe it was ultimately unavoidable that COVID would become a darker, nastier influenza. Speculating on the “what ifs?” is moot because you can’t undo, redo, or change the past.
The unfortunate reality is that COVID is here to stay. You can take all the precautions in the world — but unless you utterly isolate and hide away from life — the odds of not getting COVID are stunningly low.
Vaccinations do not prevent the disease. But they DO make it far less likely to kill you. Vaccinations most likely will keep you from having a case so severe that you would need to be hospitalized.
Like it or not, COVID is here to stay. Even with all the deaths and those who are less fortunate and wind up with long-COVID and related ongoing medical issues, it’s going to remain with us for the rest of our lifetimes.
The level of fear that COVID sparked in the world is surreal. When we already live in a fear-based society, the added fear COVID brought on has been distressing and devastating on many levels.
