Wisdom beyond from haiku

... quoting CS Lewis:

I envy people that grow old gracefully. They age like a fine wine. I'm aging like milk. Getting sour and chunky What might CS Lewis say of our new COVID situation? Here's what he said in 1948 about the mental shift required by living with the threat of the atomic bomb: 

We think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. "How are we to live in an atomic age?" I am tempted to reply: "Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents." In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation.

Absolutely - embrace your inner buboes, laugh and sing as you're clubbed over the head on the cart:

https://youtu.be/QcbR1J_4ICg