"SERIOUSLY. ENOUGH!"

   Though I have said these words over and over, this time it was not me. Nope. It was a Fox news person, a host on a weekend show. OOH!   Fox news. That brainwashed channel. Yup! chickens coming home to roost, I guess. The entire statement was at that point about Chris Wallace, accused by he who shall not be named, of being a bad reporter, with 'nasty' questions, and it went like this: "Enough with the 3rd grade name-calling. Chris is doing his job. The news should not be any president's friend, ally, or buddy.... "Seriously. Enough." Ahh, vindicated at last.
      Apparently, that man's only talent appears to be a nasty one. Quelle surprise! Not!! He takes part of a person's name and rhymes it into a schoolyard taunt, or simply tags the name with a nasty adjective that appears to go with it, at least in his tormented, deeply troubled and depleted  mind.
    The other target of Sunday's invective was poor Fauci. Here we have a representative of the elderly population still giving his/her all to society, even as we kill them off in the nursing homes, in hospitals and in beds at home. Fauci warned that man and his imbecilic followers about the necessary steps to take, warned them of the pandemic and got wave offs and insults galore as payment. Now there are tweets to fire the man. That, my friends, would doom us. Quickly. This, even as we find that there is a consortium of knowledgeable people who have texted, advised and pleaded from the beginning, all to be dismissed by our supposed leader, as he turned to medical and health 'experts' such as the Pillow guy, or Giuliani, or Jared! The result: Over half a million cases and over 21,000 dead right here in America by Sunday. Oh, yes, nice to be #1, right Donald!!!!
     Even as experts - economic, societal, health - and plain old sensible people with a modicum of intelligence warn that opening the economy full blast by May 1 is NOT, most emphatically not, the way to go, he persists in that dangerous plan. Yes, not just foolish; far beyond that. No, there is no light at the end of the tunnel - not yet. We must persevere, difficult as it is in so many ways. And despite all claims to the contrary, these people -  "China, the World Health Organization, President Barack Obama, the nation’s governors, Congress, Democrats generally and the news media" -are not to blame for the pandemic and its strongly rooted residence in our country.
     Described as shell shocked, overwhelmed, flattened, by the pandemic, this man is in a leadership position without the traits of a leader. Moreover, he exhibits exactly those traits inimical to a good, smart and strong one. Instead he has turned to threats, to ever increasing onslaughts against the other branches of the government, atacking the state and local levels of government, any and all, other than where the buck stops _ him! Inspiring? Heroic? Clever? Able to think on his feet - or think ever?
     Even as we know and are told that earlier actions would have saved lives on a massive scale, even as we are afraid, we are adapting. We need to do more. We need to worry about our health professionals who are tiring and getting sick. We need to worry about the other guys - the grocery workers, the shelvers, the delivery guys, the mail personnel - all doing their jobs and all endangered, feeling the ever growing spectre of illness and even death. Produce, fruit, dairy, are being discarded as food banks are running out of food for the huge needs of Americans now. People are starving even if we do not see them as we sit home. There are so many problems and who will address them? For sure, not this administration, even as they attempt to complicate the voting process in the mad hope that they will prevail. G-d help us if that were to happen.
    The only cogent and intelligent overall plan I have heard is that of Biden, as he spoke on Sunday. No name calling. No transferring blame. Accepting responsibility to lead, to serve the American people. Not to worry about one's stock or benefits from the economic bill. The Democrats are still, for the most part, the party of and for the people. Not perfect, but a helluva of a better choice than the other.
     We need to be strong, tell our reps what they need to hear, like it or not, and get out there and vote, vote, vote! Save ourselves, the country, the world as well. Realize that we need to prepare for a new world, a world where this virus will be with us, and other ones as well. Realize that the peoples of the world are so tied together that we cannot look away nor  pull ourselves away. There is too much to be lost and is a deep impossibility, even as we do harm trying to prove the opposite. 
     Creativity and gumption. Thinking of others. Voting in November for a fresh attitude. Hope for a future. Hope for our children. Hope for a peaceful end for us. All the time, be well. Be safe.