It appears to be that most of us are runnning our lives in an almost childish game of choice. Do we take a chance on shopping at a later hour or a senior hour? Do we rely on delivery? Food Banks? Wear the mask or 'save' them? How do we clean them, redisinfect them? Does the filter wear out? Where is the filter? Can we meet with friends on a lawn with proper distancing? How do we make choices and decisions with proper guidance and knowledge? In fact, is there any proper knowledge and information?
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Catch a tiger by his toe. Oh, yes, have we caught that tiger! And now that we have caught it, what the hell do we do now? That appears to be the question of the day, every hour, every second of the day. We look around and wonder why certain countries and areas within a country are more prone to infection. We wonder why the greatest country in the world is left standing with its thumb up its rear, lacking supplies, having a challenged food and item necessities distribution line challenged.
Someone dropped the ball here and is too damned lazy and/or incompetent to go fetch it. Nope, for those responsible are too busy trying to pass off the blame onto others rather than standing up, being a grownup, accepting blame where it needs to go and getting on with the needed programs. And why, have we, the people of this country, allowed such incomptence entry into our ruling leadership and legislators? When the hell did we all grow so stupid, negligent, gullible?
We have lost our way. Simple. The truth. We have allowed discouragement of truth and honor, of care for our subordinates, for placing others before ourselves. We punish the honorable, like Crozier, and reward the bad, war criminals, because our imposed upon us President lacks honor, lacks compassion, lacks the wherewithal to proceed in a positive, purposeful and transparent direction.
Mr. Bigshot of the Hot Air continues to speak lies, misinformation, maintains his nasty and childish habit of insulting opponents, and concentrates on further reducing our Constitution and its safeguards to dust as he appoints unqualified judges to seats for the next four decades, as he insists on scheduling his convention, as he boasts he will not wear a mask even as he tests all who come near him, checks their temperatures, luxuries the workers on the front line cannot do, have neither the time nor the equipment to do so, but there he goes, the "man of the people"! So very much not so!
Why was the pandemic response office dismantled last year even as we all knew that the day was coming. It was inevitable. Why were there no plans to save retail, to save small businesses, even to bolster big businesses which were so badly hit? Why were there no stockpiles of working equipment, of necessary garbing, of trained epidemiologists available to work with the doctors of the nation? Why is the answer from him always the statement that we had better be given what we need and if we do not get it, well 'we are tough' and will just take it!
What the hell do we do with that tiger now that it is proving its flexibility and shifting itself around in our grasp, biting and clawing at us, killing one captor after another? Are we supposed to breathe a sigh of relief now that we know that the crazy, confused WH has appointed Jared as the chief boss of this fight? Dear Lord, the same dude who has failed in all his major projects? The one who lies about figures and forces others to conform to his, who says that the stockpile of the nation is not for the states but for "us". It is "ours" he rants, meaning the people on the federal level!! Such a damned coward. Such an incompetent person. Such a growing clone of his father in law. A good example as to why we do not allow nepotism and yet here we are, at a most critical time in our nation's life.
It appears that the YOU ends on us. We are it. We are the front line nation which was supposed to do better. We were supposed to be ready for anything. We are not. We never were. And so we are dying by the thousands, the numbers growing daily in an exponential manner. And so we are spreading the infection in that same manner, ill in hospitals running out of personnel and materiel. Or we are dying and suffering in quarantine rooms at home, aching, fatigued, alone, alone wherever we are, bereft of the standard comforts of loved ones.
All in the name of fighting this pandemic when if we were prepared, if we had done our homework and handed it in on time, we would have been ahead of the curve rather than lagging so far behind, so deadly in that lag, in our incompetence, in our stupidity. In our insistence on allowing this evil clown to boast of nonsense, of danger, on his new reality show.
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo. How does one stay well, stay safe, in a childishly dangerous world with a demented one at the helm? How? I cannot think of any which way for whichever path we take we are in danger, existential danger, and we see that right now. Take a properly distanced walk down the main shopping streets of cities, of towns. Feel the echoing emptiness. Feel the despair of millions of people as they watch their world collapse and reemerge as a strange, twisted one. Look at the confusion of the children as they watch their parents and all gownups prove to be unable to answer their questions nor provide a cure for the problems besetting us, all around us.
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo. Where is Indiana Jones when he is needed, to tame that tiger and give us time to heal our wounds, to protect our citizens and the world? When we need to find a different leader, one with compassion, empathy, and understanding of the situation. The choice might not be optimal, but it is there and we had better fix our choice meme or we will be food for the tiger as well.
Eeny, meeny, miney, mo. We are all holding that tiger we so stupidly and without forethought caught by its toe. We are all at risk, all responsible for behaving properly, for better preparation for a new world. We have all failed in that task and need to improve - NOW!
Eeny, meeny, mney , mo. Never mind the rhyme. All are chosen. All must do the right thing. And as usual, be well. Stay safe. May the Lord watch over us, give us another chance.
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