The work you do has a lot to do with several problems. My back scans are interesting: Due to heavy lifting & Sheep wrestling etc. my back had already started to fail in my thirties & as you go downwards on the scan, the disks get smaller & eventually disappear. Knees are both suffering motor cycle disease, from the farm bike's habit of landing on them.

Marc

Pete, we are pushing ourselves past our use by date!
There were times when both my son and myself went thaaaaaaaaaaaat close to dying permanently.
Each time something has occurred that has saved the day, the right hospital tech team on duty, the right decision by a doc and so on.
Changes in technology seem to happen just in time in cardiac and cancer areas for us.
We are proving bloody hard to kill.

That's a reason why people like me hate the guts of idiots that are built healthy and just abuse their bodies with booze, drugs, cigarettes.
No sympathy from me when idiots turned up at work late or missed a day because they were hung over or had a "cold" and could not make it.
That is the sort of bludger I would punt first when shedding staff. .
I was asthmatic, arthritic, cardiac compromised and suffered cluster headaches by my 20's and still worked two jobs, made my own line of guitar amps in my workshop at home. I'd be in at work almost dead running a department or doing a gig. Some dumbo would throw a wobbly claiming a cold? That's called get the sack in my book. Like in back to the future, I hate slackers!

That's how hard actually having REAL things wrong makes you.
I an still going to live to 120 so stand aside!!!

Cheers, Fred.

Oh you know I'm only Joking Fred . People live a lot longer now Fred than years ago ,,, But the virus is not getting better , it's getting worse and no wonder with the protests in the cities, 10 Million now have the Virus !! I know you have health issues , But its that virus you need to Dodge !! The second wave may infect a lot more people. Many of the new cases are people from Overseas !!
But people are so stupid they are flocking to beaches , Protests, you name it. They are predicting it's going to get a lot worse than we have already seen.


Pete

Some people are too soft, fortunately I escaped the Asthma type issues until 1980 when the respiratory system got burnt the first time. It went down in March to below 40%, but that was not really any excuse to stop. Its taken 2 months so far to clean up the now dry rubbish, not suited to fire wood, still got a stand of trees around a hectare plus to do plus a few odd bits.

I did walk several Km around more of the neighbours horse paddocks today in winter weather, & proved that they are still not fully recovered, but when one gets sunshine (as I have said before) the Vitamin "D" is good for the immune system. It also proves that some fencing contractors have no idea of "Electric Fencing", how to apply it to particular animals and worst of all, what type of jointing is appropriate. I will have to cut & resplice several joints as those like two loops will arc & can start fires.

The other thing that is annoying is the over use of disinfectants and stuff like Glen 20. This does nothing to help the immune system as everything is so bloody sterile the immune system is so weak it can't handle it. Being on the Farm the immune system cops heaps as one lives in a less sterile environment that is why it cops heaps and is likely one reason why city people seem to be more vulnerable to the bugs they get from living on top of one another in one great blob with no green space like several miles in between clusters of housing.

Here we have little Hamlets spaced out on the distance Bullock waggons etc. could travel in a day.

Marc

And you know why the Europeans were able to conquer the Incas when there were only a few of them against thousands,,,

The Flu ?

Yep. The bugs the Spaniards all carried (and were immune to) because they slept with their farm animals during the winter for centuries bowled all the natives over like ninepins.

So Marc, you are one up on us city folk!

Well,, Nature got even now by the looks of things because Spain has been hit hard.
The thing is, If 10 million people now have it , Then in time we will all get it , But by then things may of changed.. Often in past, these cases of flu that have come along and killed millions and then it just disappears again

Well you have heard the term "Montezuma's Revenge? Different context, but, hey!

Christopher Columbus & his crew picked up syphilis from the natives of Hispaniola. Once brought back to Europe it spread like wildfire, wreaking havoc for the next 450 years.

That is what I call “fair trade”!!

Well what goes around comes around,
When henry the eighth died even his brain was covered in syphilis sores!
I image the Two wives he had beheaded must of been in fits of laughter up the clouds watching.
What a prick he must of been.

Yes, the little present the Spaniards brought back from the New World hit the royal courts of Europe particularly hard.

I agree with Pete's comment about Henery the eighth. What a nasty evil tyrant he even boiled his cook to death.
How would you like to have been in his employ?

The cook probably tried serving up food like the garbage I tried to hold down at work today.

Pete said : "Negative 😀😀😀😁"

But what about the "antibody" test to see if someone had it and recovered (that would be useful info)(but they seldom test for that)(more expensive?)