12/26/2020
With the weirdness of 2020 coming down to the last few days, I have wanted to write a poem about it. But, alas, I am not a poet. I’ve wanted to write a strong condemnation of it. But, also, I am not a qualified rebuker. I wanted to write a novel about it. But, alas, I am not a novelist. So, here I sit, writing the perfect solution of it instead: Let’s be done with it! 2020 be hanged! Bring on 2021!
I wrote at the start of this year about how great the momentous 2020 would be for us all. Boy did I miss this one. There’s no reason for me to re-hash the events of this year. Rather, how about if we stress the need to be positive and therefore enthusiastic about the coming year? Being an inaugural year brings us a different President. He’s not a good choice, but his people worked hard at digging up several million dead democrats to vote him in. So, let me see:
Democrat Presidents; Jimmy Carter: I listened to when he was running and I could listen to his speeches for a year, or so. Then not until he got old and was a better man than he was a president.
Semi-Republican George H.W. Bush: I didn’t listen, not because his voice bothered me, but because he was sort of “do-nothing” (except he lied one miserable time and sort of done me in.)
Bill Clinton: I listened to him once when he first ran, listened to the debates (both terms) because H. Ross Perot was there, never listened to a presidential speech, but now listen to him just to see what an old liar sounds like.
More Republican than his father, but way less conservative than me George W. Bush: I listened to him for 8 years and like Reagan, his second term he was too liberal. He also caused the next guy to win. Yes, he did.
Barack Obama: I heard one primary speech and dismissed him as being qualified to do anything. Then, the debates, primarily to see how poorly the republicans presented their proposals. Could not ever listen to his speeches for his 8 years, and now cannot stand to hear his voice. His audacity of writing nearly 800 pages about himself and calling it Part 1 is not to be believed!
Now, we’ve got Joe…..oh, my. Can’t listen, can’t participate, can’t believe we are in this position——80 million votes? I don’t believe it! He may be the last president of the USA, I fear.
So much for politics, let’s move on! Wait! It’s hard to do that since I want to mention Covid-19 and it’s as political as they come!
I know the virus is actually making many people ill and there is no denying people close to me are ill from it. A couple of distant relatives of my wife have passed away due to the China virus. I call it that because all that I have read and can learn about its genesis convinces me that China had it made, probably with a consortium of collaborators from all over the world. What their purpose truly was I will leave to your own judgment. And the medical experts, doctors, and caregivers at every level cried out, “We must have a vaccine!” So, President Trump instigated a program to cut the research time down by about 70% and sure enough, we have a vaccine being applied (as I write) to millions of people—even while politics is still arguing about where it should go and when.
In the first place, this should have never been manufactured in China. In the second place, China should have kept it contained. Thirdly, as soon as the president banned incoming flights from China and Europe, medical experts began to want to take over the United States of America and began by illegally suspending rights (without the benefit of martial law) and soon begin to cause local officials everywhere to quarantine healthy people! How much greater idiocy could have been perpetrated upon us?! So, here we are one year in. Record breaking research and two vaccines foisted upon us because of the diabolical intentions of a few who, no doubt, will never be caught or brought to justice.
The quarantine-isms have caused more harm than good. Business closures are doing irreparable damage to millions of people. Gatherings have been so curtailed in may states that fellowship is rapidly coming to a halt. What these governance pressure point operators don’t seem to remember is this: people teach themselves how to become immune by personal health-care, feeding, self-quarantining, and diligence. I don’t believe there would have had to have been any of the government involvement in curtailment of normal activity. People would have taught themselves and probably with a lot less deaths.
[I know it’s easy to say this because I don’t have to offer proofs or back it up. It is just my opinion. What becomes suspect in my mind is the progression of virus attacks over my lifetime which carried warnings of the “massive” deaths that were expected: bird flu, swine flu, SARS, HIV, etc. All these have been handled and are still in existence, but contained. It is as though Covid-19 finally wins the prize for causing world panic. I’m remembering it was called a “pandemic” long before there were any numbers to warrant it, but they managed to get the numbers up and say, “See there, we told you!” But, even though the numbers scare us and our heart aches for those whose loved ones have died, the death rate to Americans is 1/10th of 1%. And the most vulnerable (elderly with other chronic or terminal illnesses) amounts to about 40% of those who’ve died. It is horrible. It is diabolical. And it is a process to take away personal freedoms in the western civilizations that we’ve never seen before. More effective than military wars or juntas or crooked elections.]
My constant prayer besides health and safety for all is this: That the Lord Himself, fulfilling the promise of 1 These.4:13-18, takes us out of here soon and let politics and its hero have the world for a “little wrath” and then, the coming Savior!….Without which this world’s condition will continue to worsen and we who have that promise will suffer even greater things.
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