Faith and sensibility are the backbone of survival.

According to Matthew 17:20 – If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can move mountains.

Faith, along with sensibility regarding social-distancing and self-isolation, will move us past the Coronavirus (COVID – 19). Complemented by the Persian adage—“This too shall pass.”

A writer who published a Nonfiction collection comprised of 100 memoirs about growing up during the Sixties, I’ve interwoven its social issues: The Cold War and threat of Nuclear Annihilation; Counterculture; Civil Rights Movement; Vietnam War; Political Assassinations.

But, I never mentioned the polio epidemic, a holdover on us Baby Boomers from 1952, when the worst outbreak in the Unites States occurred. From Wikipedia: Of the 57,628 cases—3145 died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis.

During my adolescence, I recall public round-ups at various intervals to receive both an inactivated poliovirus injection and a weakened poliovirus given orally.

Social-distancing never entered the picture!

And, no hand sanitizer either! Yet, my generation survived the Hong Kong Flu epidemic of 1968.

From the prologue of 100 Wild Mushrooms: Memoirs of the ‘60s (2017):

Meanwhile, under the mushroom cloud of the Cold War with its threat of nuclear warfare, my sister and I carried on as kids do regardless of world events. We twirled our hula hoops, collected Bazooka bubblegum wrappers, did our homework, rode bicycles, watched television, chased down the ice cream truck, and slept on brush rollers. Life as we knew it was groovy and far out!

*Then, as now, faith as small as a mustard seed will move us past this mountain.

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