When I decided to do this blog every single day for 2020, I could not have predicted COVID-19 and the different world we now live in. Nor can I predict the very different world we will be living in in another two months, and of course the drastically different setting by year’s end.
On my end, life is hardly different from normal during lockdown but we seem to have three distinct groups of people that are at play right now in society.
A) The general populace that has hunkered down to do what they can to aid in slowing down the spread of the virus. These are more or less rational, intelligent human beings.
B) The gun folk who are buying more and more arms and ammo, thinking the time of war approaches. Some say it’s for defensive measures against those who would try and take what’s theirs. The ones that would try to take what’s theirs will undoubtedly also be armed to the teeth as well. I can understand people having the dark thoughts. I’m just hoping the ones with the *really* dark thoughts, those who would presume to roam the streets like a self appointed peace keeping force will continue to play out their dark fantasies only in their heads and in their basements.
C) The rebellious and oblivious members of society who continue to make everything worse. The oblivious ones flitter about, thinking that because they feel fine, they’re not infected, they can’t imagine being sick. The insidious 14 day incubation period of the virus is tailor made for these oblivious, stupid, irresponsible, jack-asses. They could each be infected, spreading it around to anyone and everyone for those two weeks, including their kids, parents, the elderly, the immunocompromised, friends and coworkers.
The rebellious ones defy the the virus, steadfastly refusing to alter their lives because of the bug. They’re not gonna let it win! One genius and future leader of the free world –if he isn’t dead at 21 due to rampant stupidity– said that “if I get it, so be it, but no way is it gonna stop me partying!”. Frankly, if this argument in favor of “thinning the herd” were to die due to COVID-19, I wouldn’t shed a tear, because his brainless activities put a lot of other people in danger.
Groups B and C will also be the loudest when it comes to not letting “authority” stomp all over Their Freedom while “authority” tries to save heir lives.
So yeah, I have no idea where my thoughts will take this thing each day. I do have about a month’s worth of entries on different topics already in the queue that I want to get in here. I think I’ll need them just to break things up. I think we’ll need some distraction, some occasional fiction and I think we’ll need some occasional silly and absurd, too.
Silly and absurd, I’ve got.
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