Thank you for your sincere and heartfelt comments, Susan. The issue, I believe, is that many of us have not been exposed to nonfiction storytelling, or training self-experience, of threats other than those related to health, or threats other than those related to death. Thus, our true and sincere sympathies get bound tightly to "death toll" issues only, which likely you and I both have noticed can and has in recent history driven some debatably cruel or semi-cruel policies. TV news indoctrination affects us all, and limits to our experience is natural. Thanks again for reading and supporting my writing, Susan. -- Patrick