Day 2: 2020 Pandemic. The Saddest Thing I Heard Today and a Free Survival Guide.

13 March 2020.

A woman said they were going to the store and someone yelled to them from a car. She went over and there was an older couple sitting inside. The eldrly woman cracked the window. It was obvious she was in great distress and had been crying. She said that they were afraid to go in the store because of the virus.

I can’t blame the couple. SARS-CoV-2 is particularly nasty for older people or those with underlying conditions, particularly with the lungs. I wasn’t particularly worried until my wife reminded me that I have aspergillosis in my lungs from one of many deployments to the dark corners of the world. She can hear it when we’re watching a comedy and I laugh deeply, then start to cough.

Because of the fear and uncertainty, my Green Beret Pocket-Sized Survival Guide is free today and tomorrow on Kindle. If you don’t use Kindle and want a pdf version, email me at bob@bobmayer.com I’ll send you one. It doesn’t have the preparation portion of the larger book, The Green Beret Preparation and Survival Guide, but it has the survival part and the same Appendix I’ve added about the Coronavirus.

Think of not only older couples, but the elderly who live by themselves. Going to the store could literally be a decision of life and death.

Those who tout low numbers or state that more people have died from the flu are seriously misguided. Yesterday I did the numbers on the…