One of my brothers lives in Germany. He is in his mid forties. He is recently posting diatribes on Facebook about not allowing himself to be ordered into quarantine by his government. He says that people have always died. There have been plagues before, there will be purges in the future. He thinks this is nature asserting itself. He should not be subjected to limitations of his freedom. He calls it his imprisonment.

So I made some comments back, stating that the death rate of this bug is way beyond anything we have seen in our lifetimes.

He responds people will always have to die.

I said, tell that to the 61 emergency room doctors who died in Italy just in the last couple of weeks.

He said that some people are just not in good physical shape. Some doctors were chain smokers.

He said that the average age of Germans who died of the virus is over 80.

I am not sure if that’s true, but even if it is, I am over 60, so I am definitely in the lower end of the death range.

Brother, if I had lived 150 years ago I would have died at age 22 on Good Friday in 1979 when my appendix was about to burst. I am still here, more than 40 years later, because the military surgeon at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona knew what he was doing. Just because people always have died does not mean they should die right now, just because some of us can’t handle simple human cooperation and go along with the other seven billion people in the world with common-sense measures.

Sorry, Brother, I don’t Intend to Die.

I am staying home.