Did you know

Michael

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks. There have been 3 airplane crashes plus a helicopter in 8 days and 2 runway incursions tossed in for good behavior all starting within 24 hours of air traffic controllers being “offered” 8 month severance in exchange for leaving their positions within the next 7 days. The chairpersons of the National Archives, Federal Elections Commission, and National Labor Relations Board, the entirety or near entirety of the FBI cyber security division, US Agency for International Development, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Kennedy Center board of trustees have been removed from their offices (although some are fighting those orders). And all of your social security data has been turned over to a group of 20 year old computer programs working for an unelected, non-vetted, immigrant. (I wonder if anybody ever called him African American?)

Also in the news this week, a measles outbreak in Texas, a tuberculosis outbreak in Kansas, and the flu at its highest incidence level since 2015.

The stuff in the first paragraph you knew. That was all over the news. The stuff in the second paragraph…show of hands please for who know about them.

I’m not sure if there’s a moral to that story but it’s made me really tired. I suppose I should try to get rid of the anger and bitterness. Forget about the ironies like sending ICE into the Navajo Nation. Life might easier to forget the anger. But it wouldn’t be better.

Have a good week.

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10 thoughts on “Did you know”

  1. I heard about the tuberculosis outbreak from a friend who’s a nurse in Kansas…and although I haven’t had the courage to look, she said the CDC website was entirely offline for a while…and then when it came back, it was scrubbed of any reference to the outbreak? I haven’t verified any of that but let’s just say she was stressed. Oh my. 😔

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    1. Last I looked at the CDC site it was like looking at an early, early internet site. Stuff was there but pieces seemed to be missing and it didn’t make much sense. I couldn’t find any data on bird flu other than from news outlets where people have gotten it. Unfortunately, microorganisms don’t just go away because you don’t acknowledge them. They’re like politicians in that regard.

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  3. Your first paragraph made me mad and sad- unnecessary pain and suffering because of dumb decisions. And the outbreak of diseases that have been at bay for years just makes me angry because people don’t want to be vaccinated, and their decision impacts others. We’re a freaking mess as a country. Thanks for your honesty.

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    1. It will get better. Just keep thinking no one can take away your work and progress and keep moving forward. The days will turn into years soon enough and a new, more positive energy can resume again.

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  4. It’s the deluge of sad news that makes it difficult to think happy thoughts. I want to be informed but at what cost to my mental health. I heard one person say that we’re living in the time of aggressive stupidity. Seems accurate.

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    1. I’ve not heard that description but indeed it is accurate.Keep thinking the happy thoughts and Donn’t check out. That’s their goal, to wear everyone down to the point where we don’t care anymore, or at least for their purposes, that we don’t notice that we don’t care anymore.

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