IS IT? OH YES IT IS!

     Another. Yet another. And another. Another. Another. Another. Another. Anither. Another.
     What is that? That is what happened yesterday afternoon as we watched over Zoom, along with over 200 others, the cars drive through the roads of the cemetery to the grave site. Over and over we passed groupings of cars parked and pulled alongside. We saw small groupings of people  at the graves. Not for one funeral. Not for one death. For so many and understand that image, those groupings, are multiplied literally tenfold at the various cemeteries of not only the metropolitan area, but all over the country and the globe, at least where funerals can still take place.
     Contrast that to the idiots who get in their cars - and why is that? Afraid of a little fake virus, are you? So they get in their cars, honk and shout for all they are worth, screaming to open the economic gates, the floods of sick that will result not worth mentioning according to their twisted and little minds. But here is one person's answer to them.  "A lot of the top comments we got were about us being fake nurses, there was a huge majority of them that still believe this virus is fake, that it's a hoax and not real at all. They were convinced that we're fake nurses and that's why we weren't talking."
     That is a hero. All those who fight all day long to save the dying and then protest the dangerous protesters - they are the heroes we need to celebrate. They are the ones whose voices and experience we need to heed. That is, if we are interested at all to stop this plague that is decimating countries, wiping out hundreds of thousands, with no end in sight despite some statements of maybe, maybe, it will begin to lessen. But in the meanwhile, we are hearing that social distancing will continue for months, and our lives will be marked by a huge divide - the Before and After of this pandemic.
   Yet from the ranks of the deluded, those who follow Trump et al and his most favorite inexpert 'experts', we get that fake business despite the truth. We are told that it is not real, the virus is a fake, no one is dying, a hoax and a plan, a conspiracy of some kind of weird meshing of the Chinese, WHO, North Korea, the Democratic Party, deep state adherents, Jews, anything and everything to deny the fact that it is our failed leaders who should actually be brought up on charges of involuntary manslaughter due to their inaction and denial, denial, denial.
     As the Germans were forced to walk through the camps where they slaughtered so many - Jews, political prisoners, homosexuals, Romanys, Jehovah's Witnesses, whomever they disliked - so too should we make these hugely and dangerously inept attend a different cemetery every day, dig a shovel in the piled up earth, hear and see the prayers, the cries, the tears. They certainly appear to be deaf to them right now, so let us shove these awful facts and pictures of the truth, down their miserable eyes and throats.
      How are we to deal with this when the idiot tells Kemp it is okay to open up - tatoo parlors, of course, for how is one to forgo a sleeve for that arm? How is one to go any longer without getting that strike three times in a row or manicure those nails with yet another color design? Then, when the noise rises against this, suddenly the liar denies his approval and throws Kemp under the bus, not that he does not deserve it, but still.
    And what are we to believe when we are warned that Trump will try to postpone the election for he will not remain in office any other way. Think it is crazy, jumping the shark? Think again, for how many times has this man and his fans mentioned that he has total authority, full power and control, the master of it all. How many times do we need to hear he is a wartime president so perhaps now he will add that we need martial law and no elections at the moment. How many times has he flouted the law, both before and after election? The dictator at heart taking the opportunity to be the dictator in fact? 
     Oh yes. Not far fetched at all. So deeply are we split. So deeply have we lost our bearings. So dangerously have we allowed this to develop, allowed this man to remain in office as his party that he took over, the GOP, backed him up on spending, on rollback of regultions meant to protect us, on appointments of disgracefully unqualified judges, of interference with the Armed Services as they applied discipline where it did not belong and allowed war criminals to escape punishment. His dangerously inept behavior, his mad tactics and remarks, his inability to speak in any form of intelligent sentences and messages. Think about it. Worry indeed.
     This poisonous atmosphere has wrapped itself around every level of government. We have it here in Florida with moronic statements that no one under 25 dies from the virus. Please send that message to those mourning their under 25year old loved ones who have died. An illusion? Don't think so!! Not a fake virus at all.
     Our Village is not immune to this hateful and evasive atmosphere and governmental mismanagement. Tempers are hot and well they should be, but we need to bank these fires a bit if we are to be able to see these problems through to full resolution in any fair and productive manner. David insists that he is the local king, a Boss of the Village in some form. He is used to uncontrolled power, having imposed his plans and behaviors on the Village. He brought us to one step from bankruptcy and only the advice of Dorothy Tetro pulled his nuts out of the fire and that would have been ours as well.
      But finally, people began to realize the truth. He fought that and still fights that and was elected  not by very much this time around. Losing his zombie voters perhaps as they age out of this world? Finally alienating his former supporters? But tempers are high and rising, so some fierce, strong, angry words are used. Now, this man who spoke in so demeaning language of opponents, is running around angry that people are sending those sentiments and words back at him. He forgets that he is the one who instigated this behavior, who brought it into fruition in the Village race. I know, for I was his target in one election and received worse than his alleged letter from a resident. I was cursed, told to die, along with family members and friends, threatened, 'informed' upon to governmental bodies in the hope of destroying me totally, and any publicity I had, but that was okay, for he was the disher out, he and his buddies. Now the shoe is on the other foot. First Greenbriar finally threw him out of office and now the impatience to throw him out of the office of the President of UCO. Good idea,  but it needs to be done right. We are better than that.
     In the meanwhile we must keep the rhetoric somewhat tamed, force the talking rather than the fighting, gather signatures, though they have made that harder, gather proof of fiduciary carelessness, of refusasl to run UCO as it should be, of his irregular separation of those he dislikes from the facts and figures they need to do their job, to stop intimidating along with the snarky comments muttered sotto voce up at the table on stage and in the UCO office.
      Will that happen? I hope so, just as I hope that Trump gets his major slap in the face and is ousted by the election, by common sense and powerful needs that we have here in this country. I hope that we will have victories here as well. In the meanwhile, David, suck it up, be a big boy, a grownup, and try your best to handle the same crap you threw and are still throwing at others. Be a mensch and try the other way, talking, quietly, conversing as adults of even tempers, compromise, and place this Village, the residents and their needs at the forefront of it all. Cut down the ego a tad, yes? That might help.
     We are all so angry, so frightened these days that we forget that the proper way is there and we just need to find our way back to it. We need to stop being so selfish, so self focused. We need to remember that we are all in the same boat, that one leak or two can and will sink us all.
      Let us all dial back the rhetoric, obey the rules meant for us all. Set up fair play, demand the truth from all those in office, elected or appointed, stop the government run by intimidation for certainly it is surely out of place here inAmerica. Speak strongly, but fairly, be open to righteous compromise that will work to the benefit of all residents in this country, state and Village. It can be done. We just have to work harder, adjust to new parameters and get the job done.
     In the meanwhile, friends, do the right thing. Protect yourself and your loved ones, even the person on line in front of you for we are all in this together. Be well. Act safe, be safe and hope and pray that we get through this maelstrom quickly and safely.
     It is real. It is horrendous. There are so many dead and gravely ill. Be smart. Think. Behave. 
Be well. Be safe. The alternative is not one we want.