Here a am. Halfway up this hill. Just got off the phone.
It’s my day off school. Its +5 degrees. The sun is out just a few clouds to see. Its slow going the ground is soft. My tires are sinking into the mud. Am On my way to kikut stua “Staffed cabin”. you can get a coffee and waffle even a room to sleep in. when its open. To day am not so lucky just a snack machine. But its going to save the day. The gravel road is the most used in nordmarka. The proximity to Oslo. Make it perfect for training from the city. The loop is 55 km From the city. Normal a use around 2.45 hours. But today an almost used 3.30 hours. This mud..dam. mud is the cyclist worst enemy. Hopefully its going to be better when a got up this hill.
My teacher called me. She told me the news a was dreading. A had a feeling is was coming. School are closed. Due to the coronavirus. You have 14 days of “Force Holiday”. Now two days has passed. in the news all over the world the message is the same. Stay at home. Avoid large crowds. Some feel its stupid. And unnecessary. Here in Norway we have some young ho are throwing “corona” partys. The news are reporting around 50000 people traveling to there cabins in the mountains. Where small communities have just a few thousand residents. Now they have a lot more. with the same amount of medical staff. The government has ask people not to travel. Its talk to trow them out using the police or close roads. Then you have the hoarding. We see it all over the news. Where is all the toilet paper? Even in the zombie apocalypse its toilet paper in the stores.
In the Science fiction book the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. It’s a story of how the world was made. The short version. we are and experiment. where the mouse are the higher intelligence race. They had made the earth. To test their theory about life and everything. We are in a giant experiment how will the world solve this problem and how will we as A race do it. Exciting and scary at the same time.
(source : Jon Rogan )
The podcast of Joe Rogan had Michael Osterholm as guest. Is and American public health researcher and an expert in biosafety and infectious disease. It was very interesting recommend listening to it.
His theory of the corona virus is not to stop it. We can’t. its like the wind. we need to get sick to build up the immune system. What we need to do is slow down the spread. The worst-case scenario is what happening in Italy now. Where the amount of sick is overwhelming the health care sector. Some number of mortalities is saying its around 4% in Italy and under 1% in the rest of the world. This numbers are very uncleared. But when you are thinking abut it it makes sense. If the hospital has to many patients some of them are going to die. On the lacking of necessary equipment. understaffed. And the staff get sick if they are overcrowded. Vicious circle.
The road ahead is unclear. What is certain we all Need to put away our normal lifestyles for a few weeks. For the grater good. For our fellow man/female If you are under 40 and in good shape. You have very little chance of real harm. But it sucks to be sick don’t get me wrong. A don’t want to be sick. Its spring a want to ride my bike in the sun. Have a beer in the sun. But what I really don’t want is. My Country to break its back. “am not getting sick ide” So let’s all hunker down. put on Netflix. And brew a pot of tea.