Our world is changing in front of us as we speak. History is being made in 2020 and it is an uncomfortable thing...change that is. Life before COVID will no longer exist medically, socially, psychologically and democratically. Our country is taking a beating on all fronts and our country is the biggest drama queen in the world. If it is not one thing, it is another and that just the way it is. We are a spoiled lot were we demand justice, demand protections of our rights and demand enforcement to protect our rights. We as Americans, want our cake and eat it too on EVERYTHING.........…. but he will have nobody to blame for what happened on his watch other than himself.
Me? I do my part with COVID precautions, maintain a common courtesy to those who are working at the places I frequent and say "please and thank you" profusely.
Just wanted to focus on a couple of your points.
I very naively thought this thing would blow over "in a few months"...……...started in February/March, figured it would be over in June or thereabouts.
The way it's looking now, I got the June part right.
But I got the year wrong, looks like 2021.
I've already bagged the Summer of 2020; no cook outs, drive ins, festivals or concerts with our usual crew, we all used to plan these things every Summer and we'd kick off the Summer with a huge block party.
None of those things for me this Summer; oh well, there will be other Summers, it is what it is.
The staggering thing to me is WE KNEW THIS WAS COMING and look where we are; FIVE months into it and it's still spreading like wildfire with no end in sight. People talk about a second wave in the Fall; SECOND wave? We're not even done with the first wave and July 4th is two weeks away.
As more things reopen and more people venture out, I have a feeling it's going to get worse and we'll just throw our hands up in the air and say screw it, it is what it is, deaths will be acceptable and hospitals will be all full up too.
ALL of this could have been prevented with some sort of national policy on mask wearing, but hey, GOD FORBID if anyone has to put a ****ing mask on for 10 minutes while they shop for groceries, "WHAT ABOUT MY RIGHTS!!"...………….Your right for what; spreading a virus all over the supermarket while you pick up a box of twinkies?
What would some of these people have done in 1941 after Pearl Harbor as our nation geared up to enter WWII? They don't call people of that era the greatest generation for nothing.
We as Americans are SPOILED ROTTEN, the arrogant sense of entitlement some people have shown during this pandemic sickens me.
Things will never, ever be the same again, what a sobering reality, the new normal will never be like the old normal, that is for sure.
Tomorrow is Fathers Day; my Dad has been gone for three years now, I shudder to think what he'd think of all of this, he's certainly in a better place now, that is for sure, this would have broken his heart to see what the world has come to.
And yes, show some courtesy and respect to your fellow man, say please and thank you, I thank the deli personnel, the cashiers and the baggers all the time, I thank the two girls in the post office all the time, these people are literally putting their lives on the line.
FOR ME.
So saying thanks is the least I can do.
Tell you what; we are well stocked here on toilet paper, paper towels, hand soap and sanitizer, canned goods, bottled water, frozen vegetables and loads of chicken in the freezer.
Maybe when the next pandemic rolls around, we as a nation will be better prepared, have our heads and ***** wired together better.
We'll see.
Because I have a funny feeling this won't be the last "pandemic."
This was just round one.
