In This Episode: Some of the stories told in Uncommon Sense are wonderful, but we can’t always relate to the person in the sense we can’t necessarily emulate them: we’re not all well-connected technology geeks, born at the right point in history, or whatever. But here’s a couple of stories about regular people who got past whatever fears they have of the coronavirus, and stepped up to make a difference that anyone can do — if they apply a little Uncommon Sense.

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* My blog post about the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic: Stay Put., and the podcast episode about our “adopted” kids is Uncommon Sense in Kids (aka “How to Help Your Kids be Millionaires …when you aren’t rich.”)
* The photos mentioned are included in the transcript below.

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Welcome to Uncommon Sense, I’m Randy Cassingham.
We’re living in times that haven’t been seen since the days of our grandparents …or, depending on how old you are, maybe your great- or even great-great grandparents. In 1918, there was a flu that swept the world during World War I that killed a lot more people than COVID ever will — almost certainly. But I’m not going to go into that; if you’re interested in that story, the previous post in my blog right before this podcast talks about it, called “Stay Put”. I’ll link to it on the Show Page.
What I do want to talk about are the people who let Uncommon Sense guide their actions as they stay home to ensure they don’t get COVID, or pass it to someone else if they have it and don’t know it yet. Or the people who are turning their “essential” businesses to new things, like story after story of small liquor distilleries making hand sanitizer.
You know, the positive stories.
But before we start, I want to acknowledge something important. There are some people who get energized by an emergency like this pandemic. They spring to action either to directly respond to the challenges we’re seeing all around us, or they use the time they have while confined to their homes to learn something new. They’re the ones who have wished they had time to write a novel, or a family history — and now, they’re actually doing it. The ones who wanted to learn a new language, or learn how to paint, or even learn a new profession, and they signed up for classes online to do that.
But there are also those who are truly fearful, or depressed — or sick. If it’s bad enough, they’re lucky if they can get out of bed to eat.
Most of us are somewhere in between those two extremes. Including me.