Sometimes it takes something bad happening to provide some good.
This is true in a lot of areas of this life.
I know this past year, I have found some positives from one of the worst years of my life. Having been stuck at home in the air conditioning for the past year, I have had to make a lot of adjustments. While I am quite thankful to have a place like a nicely HVAC maintained home as my refuge, it has not been easy. Due to a chronic health condition, I had to take every possible precaution in order to avoid this virus. So that meant staying at home all the time unless I went to the grocery very first thing in the morning. There was no going to the office with its zone controlled HVAC. And I couldn’t gather with friends either. Working from home was something that I finally got accustomed to but it came at a price. My income took a big hit because the bonus structure I count on was eliminated. However, in all of this, I did find something to build on. This pandemic got me to learn a lot more about strengthening my immune response. I learned that good indoor air quality has so much to do with that. There are a great many airborne contaminants that are attacking our respiratory system. This drags on the immune system as it has to constantly fight off the attacks. I found that by simply changing the type of HVAC air filter, I could help my immune system immensely. So now I have HEPA type air filters which trap and remove over 99 percent of those harmful, airborne contaminants.