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“Discouraged, it means, “having lost confidence or enthusiasm; disheartened. ” Oh, I have so totally lost all enthusiasm for this whole game. That’s an understatement. Yep, I have a decided lack of enthusiasm going on.
I am so totally discouraged. These second draconian lockdowns that Jake the Snake just issued are kind of like a death blow to small businesses. He doesn’t want churches to meet either, and no singing of course. Thanksgiving is supposed to be canceled, too.
The restaurant I work at has now been doing take out for several months, just barely, on a skeleton crew. I hardly work 10 hours a week anymore. My heart is just breaking for some others that clearly aren’t going to make it at all. We had another suicide this week, too.
We’re already 7 months into this nonsense about, “two weeks to flatten the curve.” Everybody is masked and gloved 24/7 here, even when driving alone in their cars. It’s not like we ever opened up! The store is out of toilet paper and bottled water again because all the hoarders are panicked again.
That’s all just stuff, “just a thang” as we used to say. What’s really got me is how bloody stupid people are. Be happy, cheer up, you’ll just have to work from home now! Like people have absolutely no awareness that when you shut down businesses, you also shut down jobs. No jobs, means no money. No money means no food, no shelter.
Well it’s better than getting covid! Is it really? I’m not so sure about that.
There are a lot of really stupid people in the world who just do not care about other people. They don’t even care enough to ask what’s going on.
Our local government is doing some kind of anxiety ridden, bureaucratic, we-better-form–an-emergency-committee to try to mitigate the harm from this man made state of emergency we’ve just caused. Some sweet young thing told me about how responsible they’re being because they’re typing up some bylaws to help them be better prepared in the future, should this kind of thing ever happen again.
Sweetheart, there isn’t going to be a future.
I can totally put on a happy face, ignore Jake the Snake, enjoy Thanksgiving with or without the gov’s permission, and sing illegal praises in church at the top of my lungs. I know how to fight a mind game, a psy /ops. However, it’s still all taking it’s toll on me. I’m exhausted, I cry at the drop of a hat, and I can’t even envision where we will all be two weeks from now.
This is criminal. This is illegal. This is unconstitutional.
We are not “all in this together.” We are not,”together alone.” We are not the same at all! There’s a virus all right, but it isn’t covid, it’s cowardice, it’s complacency, it’s fear, with a few chronic sucks ups and a bit of greed thrown in for good measure.
Somebody told me they were battling anger. Stop battling it! Anger is the only healthy response to injustice. This is a grave injustice.
This is all so true! Well said and about time someone said it. The bottom line, As you noted, is this: “When you shut down businesses, you also shut down jobs. No jobs, means no money. No money means no food, no shelter.” More of us should speak out like you have done.
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P.S. I put a link to your post in my blog’s NEWS column sidebar about the 10 pm curfew for all NYC restaurants and bars,
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Thank you, I appreciate that.
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In Minnesota it’s just the same. Paul and I will be celebrating Thanksgiving the first time in almost fifty years, but we’ll be doing it alone. However, even in this discouraging time of misery, we have learned new technology so we can teach online and still make a little extra money. I feel sad for those who will lose their jobs and livelihood. I feel sad for my granddaughter who will graduate from high school in 2021 without experiencing all the fun things associated with Senior year. I feel sad for my grandson who will graduate from college and another grandson who is currently in So. Korea teaching in a whole different climate. I think it’s OK to feel sad now and then. Especially when the governing authorities are so dimwitted. We need people to be together not just come together. I pray we will learn from this. I pray that Jesus comes soon.
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I’m so sorry, Kathy. This stuff is just an abomination and there’s really no excuse for it. I think some of us are survivors or we adapt to challenges well, which is a good thing, it’s just that quietly accepting what is wrong and totally unnacceptable is not always the right thing to do.
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I totally agree. In my case I feel my voice isn’t heard much. No one cares to hear wisdom from an old lady. I get to frazzled and weary of the fight. You go girl. You know how to speak for us.
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It is not just the “dimwitted government officials”, it is everyone who are not taking the proper precautions to bet this thing!
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While there have been too many that have passed away due at least in part, to covid, I do not know anyone who has. If I believed my Governor, you would believe that we were in the middle of an extinction level event. The only thing that I see going extinct is our freedoms.
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Yep! I have no doubt that people are passing away at least in part due to a virus. The thing is, if this were a genuine pandemic or an extinction level event, you would expect to see the death toll spike. In many places, including my state, the overall rate of death is actually a bit lower than last year and the year before.
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Well-said.
Hyped-up Chinese chest-cold . . .
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No freedoms have been lost.
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I’m going to need to get me a bigger facepalm.
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lol! A really big one!
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Freedom to peaceful assembly, unless you want to riot and loot – then you’re ok, freedom to walk around without a government mandate on my face, right to privacy, my right to earn a living. Do you need more?
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” – Rahm Emanuel
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Same story in California, more draconian lockdowns for an already devastated business community and with the idea of curfews being floated.
Huge public policy decisions that lead to enormous negative consequences for all of us are being made by unelected technocratic propeller heads with 0 experience or consideration with normal people or how they live their lives.
It’s wrong and immoral and is happening right in front of us. In fact I’d say this is the greatest public policy disaster of our lifetime if not ever.
It won’t stop either until enough of use use up against this.
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Well said, Tricia! It won’t end until enough of us say, “no more.”
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I am so sorry my friend. This is horrible! What has happened to our freedoms? Doesn’t anyone care anymore?
Anger is justified. Revolt is in order.
I just finished this from Tucker. It is unnerving.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-coronavirus-pandemic-lockdowns-great-reset
I am praying for you. Blessings.
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Thanks for your kindness and for your prayers, Michael. That is much appreciated. It really is all very unnerving. I’m praying Jesus has a thing or two to say about how this “great reset” is going to go down. 🙂
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You have got to watch this
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I simply cannot grasp the ivory tower world of privilege that dictates these lockdowns. Us normal people have to live.
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I have to laugh, I keep saying that too, us “normal people.” You know things are looking pretty glum when someone named insanity is calling for, well, some sanity and normalcy. 🙂
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Right?
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I hear you IB and understand-For me I am incapable of losing Enthusiasm..literally. I read about creation vs destruction, The tree grows silently but when it’s cut down it makes a huge racket. As disheartening as everything is now it’s leading to His ultimate victory. I am praying for the hearts of those who have information, whose conscience is tender, and know what’s best to be bold and do what’s right. I am also praying for those whose eyes are closed but are prone to opening to what’s really happening, that they might see. We all know and are righteously angry at the corrupt media’s complicity. This is Spiritual War waged in the unseen, unheard, and in incomprehensible. Since we can’t gather in person we’ll have to and I might say we have been meeting in His love spiritually.
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Amen, Jeff! Thanks for reminding me about how trees make a great noise when they fall down. What’s going on right now is panicked and reactionary and has very little to do with a virus.
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I was thinking this same thing today. I was having a relatively good day, albeit I’m learning a new job so that’s a little frustrating, but as soon as I got home and saw little snippets of current events here and there, especially in the schools, it just made me sad. I’ve thought about selling it all, buying a yacht and spending the rest of my life afloat. When I was younger, I could tune it out. But now there is just so much, it’s nearly impossible to tune out. I’m experiencing a combination of anger, apathy, and hopelessness (not to the point of ending it all), but the weight is almost too much to bear. Even the good stuff doesn’t seem good. I’ve been researching places to retire, and right now the middle of nowhere sounds great. What about the Amish? Do they take in refugees? If we just showed up on their front porch, do you think they’d take us in? Cuz I think they may have the right idea right about now. Thanks for serving food. It’s got to be a tough job right now.
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Ha! I love it, maybe we could just seek refugee status with the Amish? Great comment, you’ve captured how I feel top, unable to really tune it all out and just carrying a heavy weight.
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I wish I knew some sort of solution to this madness but the election seems to have put a final nail in the coffin.
I am just so sorry you and so many others are at wits end.
We’ve been fortunate in Georgia that we did “open” back up, albeit at limited capacities, but that beats total shut down.
I just can’t for the life of me understand a governor’s thinking that shuttering his state’s economy is ok.
Like, who pays the bills when no one works? How does a state, a city, a municipality function without folks working, getting paid and keeping life generating — they don’t function— they up and die!
I have a childhood friend who is a doctor down in Jacksonville— she called the other day and told me that she’s had 45 patients with Covid, one hospitalized and no deaths— but folks are so stressed and depressed she says she’s more of a psychiatrist rather than an internal medicine doc these days.
I agree that there is such a spiritual war being waged right now and all I can say IB is that if I was there, I would hug you— but at this point a hug doesn’t much help—
I just fear that should Biden actually take over, the entire country will be shuttered and that just might be our end…
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Ha! Hugs sure help, Julie! I am defiantly out hugging anybody who will let me right now. It’s my protest against all this social distancing. Your doctor friend sounds like some of the medical people I’ve been listening to. They are far more concerned about untreated and delayed medical care due to covid and mental health issues, than the virus itself. Up in BC one area has had zero covid deaths, but a few thousand have now died of drug over doses.
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There you go— nothing like a good ol pair of blinders to get the horse right past the fire!
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When Biden wins u mean and he has. Biden will do what is best for us!
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And I have some swamp land for sale in Florida 🙄
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Biden will do what’s best for us?? Bahahahaha! Now you have gone and disqualified yourself. That is a downright silly suggestion. It is far more likely I will just start pulling real quarters out of my ears.
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That’s very poor thinking on your part. No one has won the election yet. The news media or public opinions don’t determine elections.
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When private businesses shut down, there are no pay checks. When government businesses shut down the pay continues. Am I right? It is easy to say work from home if your job is to write abstracts; not so easy if you sell hot dogs! ”
“Oh, Lord, bring honor to your name; don’t let those who mock you win.”
There has been so much evil exposed but no justice meted out! I’m seething too, but still holding His hand and saying, “Thank you Lord, for this Thanksgiving.” Fearing it might be the last. My family plans a traditional dinner, twenty plus, but the weather is predicted to be bad. Seems everything is against us. Cheerful sort, aren’t I?
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Amen, thanks for saying that Oneta! I was so frustrated trying to explain to a couple of people that no, we are not going to just “work from home for the next two months.” Apparently a lot of people don’t realize that when you shut down businesses, you shut down jobs, and when people don’t have jobs, they don’t have any money.
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It won’t be your last Tday! U guys are thinking so hopeless and helpless. U are right about the IRS employees “being off” for eight months and were still paid.
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For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. – The Apostle Paul
In this life there will be trouble but take heart, for I have overcome the world. – Jesus of Nazareth
They can take away our freedom, our livelihoods, our very lives, but they can’t take away our Jesus. – Our Lady of Blah Blah Blah
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Amen! If it’s all going to hell in handbasket, at least we got Jesus! He makes all the difference in the world. If we’re going to go into some weird kind of road warrior, dystopian nightmare anyway, at least let’s do it with Jesus. He’ll make it a lot more fun.
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They aren’t taking our freedoms. We need to take precautions to stop this thing!
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If you say so…
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I totally hear you, IB. I think the whole country has had it with lockdowns. I tried to explain to someone who thought lockdowns were good that most people aren’t doctors, like his wife, so their income isn’t threatened. Not everyone is already introverted and don’t like to to socialize with people. Most people want their life back! We can’t all just work from home. If it goes on in 2021 like 2020, we will have massive rebellion. People just won’t put up with it anymore.
On that note, my wife and I are planning on enjoying a totally illegal Thanksgiving! We’re meeting with lots of family, spending hours and hours together, inside of a house (location undisclosed. LOL!) No masks, no social distancing, lots of hugging and laughter. We’re going to totally ignore the rules for one whole day. And we’ve all agreed to do it. And, anyway, most of us have already had Covid in the last months or so, so there’s not much chance of spreading it. 🙂
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Beautiful, Mel! Happy covert Thanksgiving. 🙂
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That is very poor thinking on your part.
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Reblogged this on clydeherrin.
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Thanks for the reblog, Clyde. Much appreciated. 🙂
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Thankfully Covid isn’t the only disease going around. I hope this video by one of my favorites will give you a chuckle. Feel free to share it. This guy has (not surprisingly) been censored on multiple social media outlets.
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Ha! It is so delightful to have some good humored humor going on.
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This guy cracks me up. Check out some more of his posts. My favorites are “How to Be a Woke White Person” and “New Revelations on the Covid Death Count.”
If laughter is indeed good medicine, J.P. could be better than a vaccine. 😉
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COVID would not even be making headlines today if it was dealt with in the proper ways 11 months (not 8 months) ago. Avoid playing the victim role in today’s world. You got what u voted for and here u are. COVID was handled in other countries the right way, unlike this country. In Denmark, even, way back in March they kept kids in school because they used common sense and took COVID seriously unlike this country. Blame, Blame all u want, it won’t get u anywhere. Speak up all u want. I do it all of the time, most of the time it doesn’t do any good but I do it for my self worth and for the possibility, it may change for the better.
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