Today is March 30, 2020
The Pandemic continues to swallow up Southeast Michigan and its 5 county area. In the past week so much has happened...travel bans (domestic and foreign), the total closure of our society (both State and National)...the term "social distancing" has become the new way of defining our personal space edicts. Additionally, "shelter in place" is the norm, and all gatherings of 10 or more are banned.
Our President has continually frightened and alarmed me since his emergence on the National scene as a candidate for the Oval Office...and unfortunately, he has never failed to stop terrorizing and disappointing the thinking and reasoning people of our fair Land. I can write a 500 page observational treatise on this poor excuse for a human being...and the Christian Conservatives who sold their soul to Satan for the chance to stack the Supreme Court with conservative justices, on behalf of the unborn. I am pro-life .... but I am pro ALL LIFE, not just the unborn...but the poor, the immigrant, the mentally ill, the disenfranchised, the hungry, the under employed, the frantic, the frightened, the ill, the elderly, the abused...but the Republican Party has become THE party of the Christian Right...and yet...their candidate is the most un-Christ-like individual I can imagine. What has happened to the separation between Church and State? How is it right for"Christians" to control our government? I AM a Christian...this phenomenon... these "Christians" who embrace this raunchy bully (I have lots of unsavory euphemisms for this man) is an abomination of our Savior and our values. Our President is at the very least, a very mentally ill man. He is unfit to serve. He is a sociopath, a malignant narcissistic philanderer, a pathological liar who is delusional and vicious. He routinely engages in gaslighting. He has many signs of cognitive decline (limited, concrete vocabulary, poor memory, poor self-regulation, inability to see the big picture, concrete thinking). He is a soul that totally lacks empathy for others. He is egocentric, grandiose and totally driven by his basal impulses. He has embraced conservative pundants who have actually stated that it would be acceptable to reopen our social/monetary economy, to "preserve the Union"; knowing full-well that this would place millions of older Americans in deep jeopardy of severe illness and death. This vicious and stealth Covid 19 virus is particularly happy to kill senior citizens (Age 60+)...and these loving, Christian Republicans have told us seniors to be willing to die for Trump's economy and the survival of the Republic! Pro-life??? I think NOT! A huge economic stimulus package has finally made it to this President's desk...so 1200.00 per adult will arrive...500.00 per child. Lots of other important provisions are included...unemployment payments, etc.
Bible study groups, harp lessons and chats with friends have moved to FaceTime, Zoom and FB Messenger. All medical and dental appointments have been cancelled. Texting and phone calls have become precious ways of connection. Thank God for the ability to have contact with family and friends via these web-based services...they help all of us remain close...while being in quarantine.
Finding groceries has continued to be the First World Version of hunting and gathering. Still significant shortages of meat, dairy, bread, flour, cleaning products, disinfectants, over the counter medicines and fever reducers and...of course...TOILET PAPER!
There are literally thousands of Michiganders who are infected with Covid 19 and hundreds who have died within a 3 week period. It is predicted that many, many more of our Mitten Heads will succumb to this horrid virus. This week, I found that I knew more than a few co-workers and community members who have tested positive...and a few who are fighting for their lives...on ventilators and kidney dialysis machines...alone...separated from loved ones. People are unable to be with their dying family...they can't say good bye...they can't bury their dead...they can't hold memorial services and remembrances...
May Good bless and protect us...from our President, from this catastrophic virus, from the meltdown of our national and global economy...I will write tomorrow about the slivers of light and hope that are emerging in this terrible dark valley....
I really do love each of you. Please be safe, shelter in place...stay the hell home...hug who you can...and pray for the guidance of our Heavenly Father...and the end of this torrent of pain and suffering.
