“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary
“I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!”
― J.K. Rowling
Some things make more sense than others. Even when faced with a pandemic, there are certain ways to deal with it that should end up being effective.
First, get yourself as healthy as you can. That means helping your body instead of being a big problem for it. Eat fresh fruits and vegetables, exercise, and breathe. Try not to run around in a state of constant stress because that can affect your immune system. If you understood how deleterious stress can be, you would do something about it.
From the study The Impact of Stress on Body Function – “Based on the type, timing and severity of the applied stimulus, stress can exert various actions on the body ranging from alterations in homeostasis to life-threatening effects and death…. Stress can be either a triggering or aggravating factor for many diseases and pathological conditions.” Stress, quite literally, can kill you.
How to Destress – Limit the amount of stressful stimuli in your life. Stop watching the news. Look for the positive around you and don’t always find the negative. Surround yourself with positive people and be the happiest person in every room you enter. Learn how to meditate. Breathe deeply and consciously. There are numerous ways to take care of yourself, and if you aren’t then you need to ask yourself why that is.
Research You Need to Know – A recent study titled “Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates” from Northwestern University found that “after studying global data from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, researchers have discovered a strong correlation between severe vitamin D deficiency and mortality rates.” It’s a good study that tried to find out things like why children are unlikely to die from the virus and other mysteries. The takeaway – take your vitamin D3 and get outside more.
This is where common sense kicks in. Fresh air and sunshine are important for many functions of life on this planet, including our own ability to thrive. Being quarantined has its uses, but denying people of sunlight and fresh air is not productive. Do it safely, but get outside as much as you can.
Thought of the Day – We are alive now. Don’t stop living until the end. We are finite beings living on a finite planet in an infinite universe, and this existence is fragile and beautiful and magical. Live every moment and look at the world and all of its beauty as though seeing it for the first time.
“The world is a fine place, and worth fighting for”
― Ernest Hemingway