At Least it's not the Spanish Flu

We have two things going for us in this time of crisis: the fact that the virus has a death percentage of under five percent, and that our governments are working tirelessly to help us get through this.

While four to five percent is super deadly by flu standards, it's nothing compared to some of the superbugs that get cooked up in the game Plague, Inc. You may have heard the comparisons, the jokes about this game that simulates a pandemic under the control of the player. There are some nasty things that a virus can do to you.

With the whole world closing down, we can only hope that the measures put into place by the government are proactive enough to save lives. At the same time, we have to remember that the Swine Flu back in 2012 killed a lot of people too.

We're lucky to live in a time where vaccines are even possible. Back in the day, cholera, smallpox, and polio were menaces that haunted us continuously. We didn't even know how they worked or how to combat them. With the germ theory of disease in our hands, diseases like this current coronavirus are less mysterious and less frightening.

If you feel like you're frightened by a virus like this, imagine what you would feel if you didn't know how it spread, how to avoid it, or how to survive it. You would be leaving your fate in the hands of God without knowledge of how it worked.

Let's just be thankful that we live in a modern world that can, at least somewhat, deal with the virus that is upon us.

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