The game itself is one thing but when you lump in all the other items around it, such as travel and gathering before and after, you have an all encompassing event that leads to situations like this.

We don't have to like the situation. We can say we will not let this get us down, that we are a nothing-can-hold-us-back country and people. That said, we should not ignore what has happened and fail to learn from it.

My personnel tally among my friends: three hospitalized, one put on a vent that has since come off (healthy, strong as an ox, and young shipfitter who was brought to the brink), the others recovered after three weeks of feeling totally debilitated.