another reason to be a boondocker?

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Last nights almost cloudless sunset.

I've been keeping up with this new and scary Coronavirus and I assume most of you have also because those of us that are teetering on the edge of geezerness realize that we are often the first to go when any new virus comes wandering along, so it makes sense to at least keep up with the situation and take whatever precautions are available to us.

The latest things I've heard seem rather distressing such as you can spread the disease a week or more before tests show that your sick, that of course will allow it to spread rather quickly. There are those of the opinion that this virus escaped from China's bio weapons facility that is located in Wuhan the Chinese city that's been quarantined, which could mean it's been designed to be more dangerous than normal. And if these things are true our government must know this and for some reason they've decided to continue to let travelers from China come into this country after only a cursory test that won't show anything even if they've been carrying the virus for a week.

It seems to me to be on the safe side the government would shut down international travel until the world gets a better handle on this new virus instead of allowing it to quickly spread across the entire world in a matter of weeks. Yes I know to do that would be a financial and logistical nightmare but what the government is doing now amounts to almost nothing, and I don't even understand how they can find commercial pilots to fly the planes to and from China and possibly expose themselves to this virus.

Every time something like this comes along, and they seem to with alarming regularity, I worry mostly about my Grandkids. My Grandsons in kindergarten and of course kids in school catch everything that's going around and bring it home, so that's a big concern for me. As for my own health, I don't worry about it.

Most viruses like this are spread through human contact and I have about as little human contact as a semi-normal person can have. When I'm around people, such as going to the grocery store, I'm not there for long so my exposure to viruses is very limited and the least of my worries.

One day I might step on a rattlesnake, or get run over by a 45 foot long motorhome driven by a 98-year-old geezer, or maybe even get food poisoning at a Whataburger, but I think living the life of a boondocker insulates me from most viruses so the Coronavirus is not going to interfere with my stress free life.....But I do worry about old geezers driving humongous motorhomes.

                            theboondork

A man on a white horse riding near my boondocking spot the other day, at least I think it was a man, I could see a beard, but that doesn't prove much nowadays.

I thought this picture I took of an F-16 was kind of cool because I could see the glow of his heads-up display in the cockpit.

Sunrise at the Plaza downtown Ajo Arizona