Coronavirus, Global Aging & How Future Contagions May Affect Life In Retirement
The Novel Coronavirus is spreading. So is fear.
Despite our alleged rational, technologically-advanced, and informed era – fear changes everything. Unfortunately, the fear factor around the current and future global contagions is likely to grow exponentially and is likely to disproportionately affect the lives and wellbeing of older people.
News of the Coronavirus has spread far ahead of the contagion itself. Nearly every news source has headlined the virus. As of this writing, nearly 800 million hits can be found on Google.
Each article discusses some aspect of the virus and its impacts. However, there is one common lead. The numbers. The attention grabber for each article is the number of people infected, and ultimately, the number of people that have died.
A simple, but morose, algorithm emerges – as the number of people that have contracted the disease increases, and the number of deaths rise, so does news coverage and fear. Unfortunately, rising numbers of deaths from contagions similar to Coronavirus may become a new part of the global landscape.
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