COVID-19 Lockdown: Day 2
So, I survived my first day working at home, making phone calls and doing documentation. Work at home is not easy as it sounds, especially for one used to keeping work at work and home at home. First, it is too easy to want to get comfortable. I must sit on a hard dining table alone to work. Second, The cats keep insisting on attention. Actually, Felix, my tuxedo, will pull at my pant leg a little and then leave me alone. Tangaray, my wife's tabby, though, comes and licks my back, taps my side, and then jumps on my chair and smacks my temples. Then, of course, there's the wife, who asks me questions and strikes up conversations when I am trying to concentrate. I know. She likes having me at home in the afternoon, but it is very hard to get out of work mode when I am in it. I am already wishing for this lockdown to begin so that I can get normalcy back.
I read on the news how these brats are ignoring the shelter-in-place orders, enjoying spring break when crowds are outlawed. There were two parties in Chicago over the weekend that the police broke up because of the order. Now people understand why I dislike millennials. Really, are kids really so selfish about having fun that they can't even obey the bleeding law? Stay at home when you are supposed to! Watch a movie. Do your homework. Call your family or Facetime your friends. Sure, if a 20-year-old gets sick, they will be fine in a few days, but what if their little soirees cause them to infect their grandparents or their frail little brothers or sisters? Is having fun with your friends really worth putting the lives your loved ones in jeopardy?
I listened to two people talking about the President's conduct at a press conference last Friday. The first person said that he verbally attacked a reporter who asked a simple question. The second person said that the reporter was being unfair to the President who obviously tired from all he was doing to control the virus. I therefore looked at the footage in question. The President was talking about a drug to effectively treat COVID-19, stating that he had high hopes for it. A news reporter responded, interrupting him, by asking what he would say to Americans who were afraid. The President responded by saying that he was a bad reporter who should be ashamed of himself for asking such a question. Maybe he was being a little dramatic, but they President was right on this one. We have gone from one emergency to another. We have lost some of our freedoms. My friends, we are BEYOND fear. Fear now will only serve to paralyze when we must act. Fear is always one of the first reactions, but we must not stay in fear. We must persevere and stay healthy until this crisis is over.
In that perseverance, we must learn to respect authority figures, including the President. Maybe I am too Lutheran, but while the President may not be my favorite, he is still in an office and in a place of authority ordained by God. You don't have to like him, but you must honor him until he leaves office. Nitpicking against everything he does whilst belittling the good he does that you actually benefit from and overlooking the sins of his opponents is not honor. I challenge the multitudes who profess the Christian faith to remember this each time they call our President "The Idiot in the White House." (I am saying this to many people--not just one or two.)
I have have ENOUGH of people using each crisis to attack the President. You wanted him impeached, and he was acquitted. Get over it. I still remember how Mayor Whaley of Dayton, Ohio gave a speak about the President coming to town after a nightclub shooting that killed 9 people and injured 17 others. She told the crowd, upon learning that the President was coming to console the survivors, "We don't want him here," triggering a protest at his arrival, complete with a blimp effigy of the President in a diaper. Yes, we have our First Amendment rights, but it is enlightening how people will abuse their freedom today and try to take away the same freedom from their opponents tomorrow. That mayor had the chance to build bridges during such a divisive time, and she blew it. Just like the vast majority of politicians and extremist lobbyists, she used a tragedy as an excuse to take a dig at President Trump. Very mature. But then, maturity is a rare commodity these days, and we will need plenty of it to bring people together for the sake of our survival and more mere decency. Otherwise, like with Pharoah and the Egyptians, we have many more disasters, plagues, and tragedies in store for us.
Signing off.
I read on the news how these brats are ignoring the shelter-in-place orders, enjoying spring break when crowds are outlawed. There were two parties in Chicago over the weekend that the police broke up because of the order. Now people understand why I dislike millennials. Really, are kids really so selfish about having fun that they can't even obey the bleeding law? Stay at home when you are supposed to! Watch a movie. Do your homework. Call your family or Facetime your friends. Sure, if a 20-year-old gets sick, they will be fine in a few days, but what if their little soirees cause them to infect their grandparents or their frail little brothers or sisters? Is having fun with your friends really worth putting the lives your loved ones in jeopardy?
I listened to two people talking about the President's conduct at a press conference last Friday. The first person said that he verbally attacked a reporter who asked a simple question. The second person said that the reporter was being unfair to the President who obviously tired from all he was doing to control the virus. I therefore looked at the footage in question. The President was talking about a drug to effectively treat COVID-19, stating that he had high hopes for it. A news reporter responded, interrupting him, by asking what he would say to Americans who were afraid. The President responded by saying that he was a bad reporter who should be ashamed of himself for asking such a question. Maybe he was being a little dramatic, but they President was right on this one. We have gone from one emergency to another. We have lost some of our freedoms. My friends, we are BEYOND fear. Fear now will only serve to paralyze when we must act. Fear is always one of the first reactions, but we must not stay in fear. We must persevere and stay healthy until this crisis is over.
In that perseverance, we must learn to respect authority figures, including the President. Maybe I am too Lutheran, but while the President may not be my favorite, he is still in an office and in a place of authority ordained by God. You don't have to like him, but you must honor him until he leaves office. Nitpicking against everything he does whilst belittling the good he does that you actually benefit from and overlooking the sins of his opponents is not honor. I challenge the multitudes who profess the Christian faith to remember this each time they call our President "The Idiot in the White House." (I am saying this to many people--not just one or two.)
I have have ENOUGH of people using each crisis to attack the President. You wanted him impeached, and he was acquitted. Get over it. I still remember how Mayor Whaley of Dayton, Ohio gave a speak about the President coming to town after a nightclub shooting that killed 9 people and injured 17 others. She told the crowd, upon learning that the President was coming to console the survivors, "We don't want him here," triggering a protest at his arrival, complete with a blimp effigy of the President in a diaper. Yes, we have our First Amendment rights, but it is enlightening how people will abuse their freedom today and try to take away the same freedom from their opponents tomorrow. That mayor had the chance to build bridges during such a divisive time, and she blew it. Just like the vast majority of politicians and extremist lobbyists, she used a tragedy as an excuse to take a dig at President Trump. Very mature. But then, maturity is a rare commodity these days, and we will need plenty of it to bring people together for the sake of our survival and more mere decency. Otherwise, like with Pharoah and the Egyptians, we have many more disasters, plagues, and tragedies in store for us.
Signing off.
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