To prevent adding negative emotions the world doesn’t need, let me begin with the positive. Thank you to all essential and front line health care workers! We couldn’t do this without you. There may have been past doubt about how much your roles matter within our society, but we have been taught a valuable lesson in the most difficult way.
Could the prime minister of New Zealand be any more awesome? To brighten my mood this week, I’ve spent some time focusing on the impressive manner she has handled the situation. Step aside and take a few notes boys, here is how you get the job done!
In an effort to be fair, I must at the very least give a quick shout out to the premier of my province. Having not necessarily been in my good books before the outbreak of the pandemic, my opinion of him has done a 360. I have to give praise where praise is due and I appreciate the amount of heart he puts into his decision making. I was saddened to hear that his mother in law has tested positive, and I wish him and his family strength to get through this hard time.
A rally to end the lockdown is planned for my city this weekend. Here is the part where I tape my mouth shut to avoid spewing unnecessary anger. Instead, I am requesting an explanation from anyone who feels like they can give me one.
After reading everything I could get my eyeballs on about COVID-19 for the last 4 months, I have to say it has and continues to scare the shit out of me. I’ve never been surrounded by such a remarkable amount of death and people being put on ventilators. The fact that no one knows until they contract the virus how sick they will get and that the scale can go from having no symptoms to being at death’s door.
That is this invisible enemy’s ultimate malicious quality. Since not everyone gets sick it is easy for asymptomatic carriers to go about their day as usual and silently transmit the virus. Possibly infecting someone at risk. Possibly infecting someone who won’t recover.
So please educate me. Educate me on how this is about rights and the crashing economy.
We can’t live without money to survive. To be able to put food on the table and feed our families. But our focus has to be on the preservation of life no matter how hard that pill is to swallow. Not being free won’t kill you, unfortunately this tricky little virus might. Do not underestimate the power of this ruthless beast.
Your job or business won’t matter if you end up in a grave. All the money or freedom in the world won’t bring back a loved one who loses their life because of negligent ignorance.
There is only one enemy here.
We can do better.
United we are stronger!
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One great leader said – “We know how to revive our dying economies, we have been doing this from decades. What we don’t know is how to bring back dead”
I’m moved to tears from your response. No we certainly can’t bring back the dead. Thank you for sharing this.
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Very open post. We are being manipulated by a very well oiled machine of dislike. When this begins to affect their lives, all will right itself and be soon forgotten. Stand strong and Believe only in yourself. That is where all the strength is.
Thank you so much for the sweet encouragement John! It is needed. I hope and pray for this to disappear off the face of the earth in a quick and painless manner. Take good care of yourself. Sending love💖
I haven’t actively doing the research myself but Jack at the Survival Podcast is someone who I’ve been pay close attention to for 11 years. Bottom line is that he crunched the numbers ( he’s very number oriented ) and has come to the conclusion that the lockdown has actually made the virus worse.
Thank you Lloyd! That’s interesting. Is he just talking about the numbers in the US? I feel like it’s hard to have an opinion about what made things better or worse while the numbers are still changing. Lockdown has meant something different for every country so the strategy implemented also comes into play when attempting to analyze effectiveness.
He talking about US numbers but, the response has varied from city to city and state to state here so there’s a variety of things being done. He has looked at numbers from other countries and when you adjust for population density the pattern remains the same. A 2% Fatality rate and a 98% recovery rate. Even in Japan where they completely rejected the lockdown. For those who were fatalities it seems they either had underlying health issues or some were in a nursing home and.. well there’s no gentle way to say it… they probably had less than a year to live anyway. It heartbreaking to say that and for those families it’s still a tragedy.
It also seems that the lockdown prolonged the event. Which was done to prevent a surge st the hospitals.
There’s going to be a lot of messy aftermath here but I think in long run it’s going to be okay. For example, I have been able to work from home which allowed me to save $300 per week in fuel expense. That money went to pay off debts which means that when things open up again I’ll be able to have more budget for locally sourced products. I expect that pattern will be mostly the same in Canada.