The World we live in. -----COVID and our battle to survive!
How the world is changing and there seems to be no end to what is taking place. Restrictions are still in place to battle the spread of COVID-19 in some areas, but are slowly being lifted, yet our behavior is being modified, whether we choose to embrace it or fight the currents. Vaccinations are becoming common place as the attempt to inoculate the world begins in earnest. While all this is good news, will those in power allow us to return to a life far removed from where we are today, the one we had before COVID arrived? Or, will it be the one we have today (masks and public restrictions), or will the goal posts be moved once again, where like how post 911 instituted new regulations that impacted us forever? How much longer can businesses struggle to survive or schools remain closed? What has this done to our grandchildren, mentally, socially and their loss of a year's worth of classroom education? Why have private, charter and religious schools (Catholic and others) remained open? Have their teachers and students been impaired or hurt by COVID? If they were, would they have remained open? The statistics seem to bear out what the CDC has been saying, that the young children population does not catch or spread the virus the same as adults.Can the public educated student make up the lost classroom time and level of education they should have had? Who has the answer to those questions? Will the cure be worse than the disease when we look back years from now, in how this was handled by our leadership (public and private),the medical experts including the CDC, and our media???
What has taken place so far, we all should be able to relate to a similar parallel. We fought the VC/NVA KNOWING we would suffer losses and that it would happen, not could happen. In some ways we tried to minimize those casualties. When we could, rather than charging into the fray, we used gun ships, At other times, it was artillery or close air support by jet fighters. We accepted those losses not because we liked it, but because we couldn't control the outcome. We've tried to control the spread of COVID, unsuccessfully. We're tried to control the human loss, but have our actions made the situation better or worse? In trying to save lives, we have devastated a huge part of our population by driving them into poverty through job losses, businesses collapsing and closings or driving them into poverty trying to keep the doors of their businesses while bleeding their saving accounts and retirement funds dry while states have regulated their ability to operate.These people are suffering tool and their anguish is no less than those who have lost loved ones. In this scenario, the people who still have jobs, the large box companies and the politicians have not been impacted and are not suffering from the decisions being made by those in charge. The U.S. will have added over six trillion to our national debt and what have we fixed? The politicians continue to use money as a solution to every crisis. It never works. Two worlds vastly seeing and living in opposite outcomes.
No one wants our loved ones, family and friends to pass away before their time, but a pandemic is like a firefight. Losses will occur and like any field commander, decisions have to be made in critical times and they have to assess the risk of losing some of the men in order to save the whole unit or get wiped out. In this case, the rich survive by default, but what happens to the middle and poverty class? What does their future look like?
I was tested positive for COVID in mid-December. All I got out of it was a loss of taste for several days. NO other symptoms showed up. I had no fever, aches or pains, running nose (other than the one I have been dealing for the past several years), or being tired. My worst fears about getting this virus stemmed from the fact I've had numerous bouts of pneumonia and bronchitis. Almost every cold turns into congested lungs with phlegm that takes weeks to get over the coughing. Still not believing my good fortune, last week my wife and I paid to get an antigen test to see if we had antibodies. The test came back positive for me and negative for her. How could she avoid getting COVID when I had it. We took no protective measures avoid each other at any point.
Now, I am debating whether I want to take one of the "experimental" vaccines. I say experimental because testing is still incomplete. Yes, its effective against the virus in adults. but are there any long-term effects or issues we have not witnessed yet. I'm certainly not making any claims or recommendation here, just sharing my own experience and thoughts. Some doctors say that having the virus and developing antibodies is not enough. But after listening to the science being twisted 10 ways from sundown, I just don't believe what I'm being told. How many times have you seen the narrative change by the experts? How many decisions we were told would be based on science, then the opposite happened?
I hope the path that you choose for inoculation and COVID-19 is much clearer than mine. When it comes to accepting what is being said on the news channels and where reality really resides, I remain a skeptic, not trusting the talking heads.
The good news is I have not received any messages from our community that we have lost any vets to COVID. I hope that continues.
Sarge
How the world is changing and there seems to be no end to what is taking place. Restrictions are still in place to battle the spread of COVID-19 in some areas, but are slowly being lifted, yet our behavior is being modified, whether we choose to embrace it or fight the currents. Vaccinations are becoming common place as the attempt to inoculate the world begins in earnest. While all this is good news, will those in power allow us to return to a life far removed from where we are today, the one we had before COVID arrived? Or, will it be the one we have today (masks and public restrictions), or will the goal posts be moved once again, where like how post 911 instituted new regulations that impacted us forever? How much longer can businesses struggle to survive or schools remain closed? What has this done to our grandchildren, mentally, socially and their loss of a year's worth of classroom education? Why have private, charter and religious schools (Catholic and others) remained open? Have their teachers and students been impaired or hurt by COVID? If they were, would they have remained open? The statistics seem to bear out what the CDC has been saying, that the young children population does not catch or spread the virus the same as adults.Can the public educated student make up the lost classroom time and level of education they should have had? Who has the answer to those questions? Will the cure be worse than the disease when we look back years from now, in how this was handled by our leadership (public and private),the medical experts including the CDC, and our media???
What has taken place so far, we all should be able to relate to a similar parallel. We fought the VC/NVA KNOWING we would suffer losses and that it would happen, not could happen. In some ways we tried to minimize those casualties. When we could, rather than charging into the fray, we used gun ships, At other times, it was artillery or close air support by jet fighters. We accepted those losses not because we liked it, but because we couldn't control the outcome. We've tried to control the spread of COVID, unsuccessfully. We're tried to control the human loss, but have our actions made the situation better or worse? In trying to save lives, we have devastated a huge part of our population by driving them into poverty through job losses, businesses collapsing and closings or driving them into poverty trying to keep the doors of their businesses while bleeding their saving accounts and retirement funds dry while states have regulated their ability to operate.These people are suffering tool and their anguish is no less than those who have lost loved ones. In this scenario, the people who still have jobs, the large box companies and the politicians have not been impacted and are not suffering from the decisions being made by those in charge. The U.S. will have added over six trillion to our national debt and what have we fixed? The politicians continue to use money as a solution to every crisis. It never works. Two worlds vastly seeing and living in opposite outcomes.
No one wants our loved ones, family and friends to pass away before their time, but a pandemic is like a firefight. Losses will occur and like any field commander, decisions have to be made in critical times and they have to assess the risk of losing some of the men in order to save the whole unit or get wiped out. In this case, the rich survive by default, but what happens to the middle and poverty class? What does their future look like?
I was tested positive for COVID in mid-December. All I got out of it was a loss of taste for several days. NO other symptoms showed up. I had no fever, aches or pains, running nose (other than the one I have been dealing for the past several years), or being tired. My worst fears about getting this virus stemmed from the fact I've had numerous bouts of pneumonia and bronchitis. Almost every cold turns into congested lungs with phlegm that takes weeks to get over the coughing. Still not believing my good fortune, last week my wife and I paid to get an antigen test to see if we had antibodies. The test came back positive for me and negative for her. How could she avoid getting COVID when I had it. We took no protective measures avoid each other at any point.
Now, I am debating whether I want to take one of the "experimental" vaccines. I say experimental because testing is still incomplete. Yes, its effective against the virus in adults. but are there any long-term effects or issues we have not witnessed yet. I'm certainly not making any claims or recommendation here, just sharing my own experience and thoughts. Some doctors say that having the virus and developing antibodies is not enough. But after listening to the science being twisted 10 ways from sundown, I just don't believe what I'm being told. How many times have you seen the narrative change by the experts? How many decisions we were told would be based on science, then the opposite happened?
I hope the path that you choose for inoculation and COVID-19 is much clearer than mine. When it comes to accepting what is being said on the news channels and where reality really resides, I remain a skeptic, not trusting the talking heads.
The good news is I have not received any messages from our community that we have lost any vets to COVID. I hope that continues.
Sarge
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