When faced with uncertainty, one thing is certain, that the most important thing is, life itself.

This is certainly uncertain!

April showers brings May flowers-or not! 

How does one cope with the effects shelter in place?  Do we just spend all our time online now?  Could this is really be challenging as it seems?  If you are already using an online platform for your social media connections, for communication with friends and family or to chide and disagree anonymously with people whom you will never meet face to face in this lifetime, then you are more than likely quite used to being online for hours on end.
For so many, everything is done on the internet, should we not already be accustomed to isolation and false sense of security of anonymity online platforms provide?   
For digital natives this is an opportunity to continue living they way they always have and if there are issues about something that they inherently disagree with, they just belt out their feelings, post a meme, and move on to the next comment section.

Mature minds?

But what happens to the elderly?  What happens when no one can visit when you are confined to the spaces of your assisted living facility? What kind of feelings are spilling over as the elderly are dismissed as dispensable.  As people who should sacrifice themselves for the good of the American economy.  What does it feel like if your life is summed up to be inconsequential?

What happens when one has no clue how to use technology to video conference with their family and friends.  Can the nurses and their assistants truly fulfill their duties and manage the use of such technology in nursing homes and assisted living facilities?

Spring time?
Is there a message from nature here?

Humans have no control over the weather so we adjust to survive it. Well the average human that is,  according to NOAA, the National Ocean and Atmospheric  and it seems that there are numerous attempts at increasing cloud cover and rainfall to alter rain water levels.  How come we fail at doing this in California year after year?

Rum Creek fire near Merlin, Oregon: August, 2022. (Robert Hyatt, NOAA’s National Weather Service)

We wear appropriate clothing and prepare our homes.  How are we preparing for this drastic change in lifestyle?  According to the National weather service, we have had the warmest September ever in 143 years! And this very topic, climate change is a divisive factor in this country. 

United we stand? 

And now it is ending of #2022 and the effects of the #Covid19 pandemic are leaving with with millions dead around the world, evolutionary lethal versions of the virus and  didactic break throughs in hygiene, common sense and a rip in the American fabric no it is two distinctly different parties that now vie for control of the #USSenate and the #WhiteHouse. 

How sad is it that now people are more poor financially and emotionally taxed than ever while a handful of people in Congress and big business are thriving exceptionally.

The second amendment and Gun control.  

School age children have witnessed the diabolic murder of #GeorgeFloyd and the already dwindling respect held for the powers that be, trickled down to blatant disregard for any kind authority, including teachers. To top it off, guns are everywhere, easily accessed by children.  Teachers have had to manage the transition of students back into classroom with their wide eyed remorseless, disrespectful, distrust of the leaders and the police in our country. All of which paves the foundation for a more unstable future. 

The pandemic while nightmarish was an opportunity  for good old fashioned economics to turn the cogs in the wheels of capitalism, the wealthy used supply and demand to leverage themselves.  As always everything is about timing, even in the old days,  Carnegie with the steel mills, Rockefeller with Standard oil, not to mention his perfect timing to miss that train that crashed and killed everyone onboard.

So now we face down one another in the fight for democracy, as fascism rears its ugly but welcomed head. How can one simply accept that it is normal for one class of people to have a stash of billions of dollars while the majority of hardworking Americans are struggling, year in year out! Isn't this discrepancy in the distribution of wealth and opportunity precisely what the original  European immigrant people came to this land to avoid? Yet we find their escape from high taxes, unfair taxes, unwarranted taxes, call it what you will, is in fact futile.  And ironically enough, the United States of America fails to provide for their own citizens but offers enormous amounts of money to foreign countries! #NATO Perhaps it behooves us to seriously consider nationalizing more of our manufacturing and energy producing entities or businesses, heck that would up the zero sum game, wouldn't it? Imagine the budget, the talent pool,  the idea of working for one's own government, like public officials do, and the amount of pride that the younger generations would have.  Seriously, this could work, the government already subsidizes utility and transportation/railroad already, why not shift to actually creating more jobs by creating and nationalizing companies? #POTUS #USDOT. This would be a precedent in capitalism, the public would own parts of these new companies-people already buy government bonds, and the government itself would be a part of competing for-profit 'entities.'