Apparently, the version of XBB coronavirus is gaining headway. The good news is that it does not seem as severe as its predecessors. The death rate is lower and that is a good thing, most definitely so. However, we are being warned that boosters and prior exposure help ameliorate its severity so people, get out there and do what needs doing - and that includes smart wearing of a mask at appropriate times. Certainly, we wish to avoid the complication of long Covid, and the brain fog that comes with it.
What cannot be avoided, or so it seems, is the invisible brain fog of a political covid that has attacked our legislators. So befuddled are they that they cannot see the apples falling off the trees of a wrecked orchard, struggling hard to remain viable, salvageable, for the alternative is not really an alternative at all. It is disaster. One that will grip the country so tightly so as to preclude any recovery at all. Cannot be - and yet it will unless we understand and act.
Many are laughing and cheering at the crisis of the GOP, unable to get its act together so as to elect a Speaker. McCarthy seems to be getting his due desserts, yet think again. I do not like that man - not at all. He is a coward, a traitor, though exactly when he joined the plot is not clear. In any case, he is definitely rotting at the edges. However, the alternative is far worse, a group of crazed individuals who have taken this country down a dangerous road, one that threatens our very existence and continuance as a democratic country, a leader of the world, one of the good guys, wearing the white hats.
That group of crazies wants to dismantle the nation, dump its governing structure in the dump of no return. That is a fact and acknowledged now by many. So, no cheering re McCarthy, but better the lesser evil, I guess. Of course, if the Democratic Party would take up Gaetz in his promise to resign should they unite with moderate GOP, a distinctly endangered species, and elect a moderate GOP member as Speaker, hence sharing the power and committee appointments. Wonder of wonders, perhaps even break the straitjacket of partisanship that has consumed this nation.
It is time we clean house, thoroughly and completely. Crook? Out. Liar? Out. Both? We kick you out with a venom. Traitor -oh hell, stick them in prison where they belong. No more a Santos. No more haters and traitors. No more thieves. No more no- goodniks clearly so from the getgo.
And for heaven's sake - stick that man in prison, make him pay for his crimes, so many, so thoroughly invasive and representative of every possible area of criminal pursuit. It is tiring and demoralizing to see Trump keep skating along, blustering away, with every new development a "sure" thing to commit him, finally. And again, pfft -no one takes up the gavel, gets on a white horse, jams the white hat firmly upon the head and chases and gets the bad guy(s).
We need to center ourselves, as individuals and as a nation. The world requires this. We need to stand for justice, for peace, for progress, for humanity. We need to do right. We need to make that effort, as difficult and sometimes seemingly impossible to achieve at times. If we fall short, then very soon -well, the consequences, the end destination of that awful potholed road we are on very clear.
Time to rid the political arena of XBB. Time to dispose of the new form of a typhoid Mary. Time to clean house, to be resolute and firm and just. Time to clear up the brainfog that has enshrouded the nation. Time to hitch up pants, hitch up to a star.
Aiming high is always the way to go.
Let us do so.
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