I think that if someone told me that there's a 99.8% chance I've won $5 million, I would have pretty much assumed I just became rich. And the stakes here are not money, but actually life. That cheers me up.<p>I am worried for the elderly, and for the poor. But this also revived my astonishment and appreciation of how magical our bodies are, in having a mechanism to fight previously unseen attacks and develop antibodies. It's really humbling.
I've found that the easiest way to stay positive is daily aerobic exercise and eating healthily, and limiting alcohol intake.<p>If you are finding that doesn't make too much of a difference, keep a gratitude diary, take St John's Wort and limit the news you are consuming.<p>It's amazing how little it takes to pull you out of even the darkest places.<p>Look after yourself :)
As a military guy who has deployed 4 times, including 2 years in Afghanistan, things could be worse. Everything is peachy so long as you have food security and basic utilities.<p>The real way to get through this isn't by trying to be happy. That is a shallow goal destined to fail. I remember reading about how that actually killed people in the story of Hanoi Hilton from the book Good To Great.<p>Instead be productive. Build something, write something, or help someone. Stay active. Go jogging or exercise. Set realistic goals, crush them, and then set more goals.<p>Things could be far worse. The whole world could be crumbling around you. You could be isolated in a holocaust death camp. You could one day lose everything. Bad things happen to good people. As bad as things could get people still find a way to make the best of it. What's important is that you accept the reality that is and how you move forward and stay focused.