I read a funny description of the "Rules of Rona" this morning on Facebook. It's funny but it's not funny. The fact is that we we have no facts. The fact is that we don't know anything because it's too new to know anything. I would love to have the answers and love for somebody with knowledge of all things Corona to give them to me but the simple fact is, that person doesn't exist. They are trying! They are working night and day to figure it out but they just don't know! IT IS JUST TOO NEW!
My husband is convinced that once you've had it, you're free and clear. Super! So lay it on me! Let's get it over with! He's also convinced that we've all already had it and that we are now golden. Free and clear. Okay, that's wonderful and all and if it makes him sleep better to feel that way, then so be it. I'd love to think that I can just skate through this with a low fever, head ache and some chest pain for a few days. But the fact is, WE DON'T KNOW THE FACTS! We might actually have had it, we might not have had it, and we might actually get it again.
But here's what's worse. The not knowing and the loneliness. I got a call from my priest a couple of days ago just checking on us. When I'd spoken to him the week before, I was in a bad place. It makes you nuts. I felt like I was just kind of losing my mind. I wrote about it. It's like a bad dream that you can't wake up from. Or a bad science fiction movie. I asked him, "So when are people going to snap and start shooting themselves or worse, each other? You know it's coming." Seriously, you know it is. He said they are already losing it. Heck, I was one of them last week. I didn't think about shooting myself, maybe the Cowboy. Too much together time and no work makes Cowboy a dull boy. If he'd walked out and said "Come out, come out, where ever you are?" just once, I'd have run for the hills. But this is just crazy. "Shining" kind of crazy. And another thing, isn't it terrifying that a small business can be literally destroyed in a couple of weeks? Heck, a large business for that matter. You'd think a couple of weeks isn't that big of a deal. IT'S HUGE! AND THIS IS KILLING OUR ECONOMY! OUR LIVELIHOODS AND OUR SECURITY.
I know God is in charge. I know that we will survive without any of it. We can live off the land and wear the same clothes each week and it really won't matter in the giant scheme of things. It won't matter. But I can't imagine God has given us all of these blessings, gifts and talents, to just flush down the toilet. I don't think that is it at all. I think we need to continue to PRAY more than ever.
I don't have any answers. I don't. I'm in charge of K&T Cattle Co and that's about it. And that too is certainly taking a big hit right now. Have you sold a cow lately? Ouch? But I'm not sure our government is handling this properly either. So they give this small business loan option or gift or whatever it is, which is awesome and all, but now the big businesses are firing hundreds of employees to get in on it! How is that even legal? Is that legal? It can't be! I also read a thing from Dave Ramsey about all these so called "gifts" you're getting from banks, etc. He said "DO NOT FALL FOR IT! If you have the money to pay your mortgage, PAY IT! Use the stimulus check to PAY YOUR BILLS because when this is over, all of your "gifts" will come due in the total amount of four months of debt owed and you will lose everything, if you haven't already." In other words, don't be a dumb ass with your stimulus check.
A friend mentioned yesterday that in NYC and New Orleans, they live like rats! They are literally piled on top of each other. I can see why they spread it so quickly there. But here? I am surrounded by land and nobody is near me but my family. Can't we go about our lives with caution? Wear your masks if you are sick? Wear one if you don't want to be? But it's your prerogative? I don't know. Here's what I do know. It's killing us and it's not the virus.
I got a text from my brother in law this afternoon that simply said, "Grandma has to get out and needs company or she's going to die anyway. It's not going to be the virus, it's going to be the loneliness." Well that we just can't have.
I know God has a plan. I pray every single day. I'm following the rules and have seen only my immediately family for weeks, with the exception of some drive bys. Since we've "all had the virus," we were allowed to eat out this week. Take home only of course but let me just say, that was the single best pepperoni pizza I've ever eaten in my life. When this thing is over, we are all going to be like the Eddy Murphy RAW video. That's the dirtiest stand up routine I've ever seen but man it's funny. When he was talking about getting married and waiting to have sex. He said "You wait and wait and by then, you are starving to death and when you finally get some, you think it's the best thing you've ever had. He said it's like being hungry and then somebody throws you a cracker. You scarf it down, crumbs and all, licking your fingers and said "That's the best cracker I've ever had in my life!" Then about three months later, you've had nothing but the same crackers, three meals a day and you realize...that's nothing but a cracker." HILARIOUS! And true! Hopefully we are better than that!
May we all get through this and never again take for granted our spouses, our families, our friends, our restaurants, our shopping, our travel, our parties, our weddings, OUR FUNERALS, our FREEDOM. May we be more grateful than ever before and NEVER FORGET IT.
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