Be thankful a new day has born. The sun will come up tomorrow.
Stores are going to be closed on Thanksgiving so that people don’t gather during Covid. Maybe everyone will go deer hunting, play a game with family, ready a book, and have a dinner party everyday instead of playing video games, looking at their devices and spending the entire day and night going out shopping.
Our local parks have quadrupled in vistors and people are outside more often, you even see kids taking a renewed interest in hunting, fishing and other outdoor activities. People are cooking at home a lot more and grocery store bills are way up, as people aren’t eating out as much.
Now if people didn’t spend the rest of their time focused on a screen worrying about the virus and our corrupt government representatives, we wouldn’t have such a counter culture to fix as well.
Within the turbulent past several years, the idea that a person can be “canceled” — in other words, culturally blocked from having a prominent public platform or career — has risen expotentially. Even Twitter and Facebook can now apparently cancel the President of the United States and keep him from speaking. The news agencies frequently show one side of debates, talking over the Republican representatives that they don’t like. The idea of canceling someone coincides with a familiar pattern: A celebrity or other public figure does or says something offensive. A public backlash, often fueled by politically progressive social media, ensues. Then come the calls to cancel the person — that is, to effectively end their career or revoke their cultural cachet, whether through boycotts of their work or disciplinary action from an employer. This is the height of political correctness and where the last twenty years have left us.
According to Verizon, U.S. video game usage during peak hours has gone up 75 percent since the quarantine first went into effect last week. And, television viewing is way up, so there are some downsides as well.
But, in may other ways, Covid shutdowns have created some returns to better days.
Those who are able to use this time as a portal of growth are the ones who will make the biggest transformations overall.
And, if you are afraid of dying, you aren’t really living. It’s interesting that John’s Hopkins just reported that the number of deaths in the US in 2020 was not any higher than previous years. https://www.outkick.com/john-hopkins-publishes-study-saying-covid-19-deaths-overblown-then-deletes-it/
In some other ways, such as friendships and loss of travel and adventures further from home, it may not be so great.
There are some interesting studies out there on curing and preventing COVID and other flus, such as NAD (works), ivermectin (doesn’t really work), and zinc (helps speed recovery).
