Pulling the Plug:

 

I was sharing a fifth of VO with a medical student about 60 years ago when he began agonizing about the business of pulling the plug. 

He described the situation as one of a person in long-term care, tied down in a wheel chair, fully intubated and plugged into the wall. 

"Obviously, these poor souls are beyond help," he lamented, "but who's going to pull the plug?"

It appeared that his dream of a glamorous and rewarding career in medicine had just recently hit a real bump in the road with that realization. 

Today, some 60 years later, the medical community has discovered that the business of pulling the plug is handled periodically by a microbe called a Corona Virus. 

And the medical community is trying its best to prevent it from doing that.

Doesn't quite add up, does it?.