Fear Folly

Some of your griefs you have cured,

And the sharpest you still have survived

But what torments of pain you endured

From evils that never arrived?

        (French proverb)

 

Fear works paralysing, can make you ill, can interfere with your defense against infections

Worry can make you sick, spoils the present and weakens your immunity

 

There is NOT a single benefit for worry or fear. 

The only certainty they carry is to have a bad time 

and to increase the chance of the bad event you fear or worry about. 

 

Let us shift our focus away from fear, away from worry. 

While it is wise in these times to follow the SOPs put forward by experts, 

Let the fear of COVID not dominate your thoughts

Skip reading the latest figures for a few days. They do not help in any way.

They may be useful for epidemiologist but not for you and me. 

 

Deaths of infections do occur at any time. 

Let us not be busy with that in our head. 

We accept that the pandemic is here and we take rational preventive measures

but let us be busy with what we do best. 

 

I have decided for myself to update me on COVID news locally only once per week. 

I wear a mask and limit my own movements, attend no mass gatherings since this is what sounds logical and the right thing to do. But my thoughts are no longer controlled by pandemic news. 

Fear is equal to folly

Worry is equal to folly. 

I truly encourage you to read "in tune with the infinite", a book first published in 1897, but containing so many gems of wisdom, still valuable, IMHO especially valuable still today. It is freely available on the iternet. The author is Ralph Waldo Trine.