Coronavirus Blues

This virus has America singing the blues for sure. Very few, if any, have had their lives uninterrupted or challenged life as normal for more than a year now. We had a blundering idiot president that didn’t know his butt from a hole in the ground trying to make decisions that were and still are affecting all of us. He is quite possibly the stupidest person I’ve seen in my sixty years of life.

I don’t think Jen and I fear the virus, but we certainly take pause in thinking about how we might not make it through it if we did contract it. I think an even bigger fear is if we gave it to Dad and he didn’t survive. So, Jen and I mask up whenever we leave the house going to somewhere that has people, such as the grocery store. I refer to it as the war zone. There are still a great number of weak-minded people that think it is all silly and something generated by the news to damage the previous boy-genius in the Oval Office. Deep down I would never want anyone to suffer through what it sounds like, but on the surface, I have fleeting thoughts that I wished they would be impacted by it in some capacity. It is the same people that scream to have small government and that you can’t infringe on their rights of freedoms, such as demonstrating with full body armor and AR-15’s even though there has never been any mention that gun rights was somehow tied to Shelter-In-Place or social distancing, but these are the same fucking idiots that cry foul when they make fucked-up decisions that put them in a place to have to use some social program to help them get by and complain that it moves slow or isn’t enough. Shut the hell up dumbass, you didn’t want the aide to exist as it would make America a Socialist nation. These are the ones that the playful media folks have fun with at Trump rallies. I think we have all seen the one where the woman was asked if a woman should be president and she emphatically replies no. Women are too emotional, especially when they are having their period. Too many wars would be started by a woman. Then the interviewer asks, but haven’t all wars been started by men? Stupidity has to be the most notorious of the idiotic natures that exist. It is certainly the one that can put someone like Trump into office when everyone, and I do mean everyone knew it was the worst thing we could ever do.

Jen and I have experienced little change and our life really doesn’t look that much different than it would without the virus. It is more about fear for us and being in that target group that has an increased risk of death. Frankly, I’m not ready to die, not just yet! For us it is more about feeling like an acre of land is not big enough and there is just so much you can do either financially or energetically. Heck, I go out and watch the septic guy check our system and my back hurts. Even having the ability to go to Dad’s and do some things, I feel like I don’t want to do yardwork right now. I’ve procrastinated on the light at the front porch for months now, so I guess I better go ahead and get that done before Jen hires it done. We are getting a little bluesy in our quarantine situation. I think we have done great not wanting to hang the other and we have both been very respectful of the other. However, little things tend to build and who knows how we’ll feel in another week or two or year. I know we are both tired and it is now even coming through on our energy levels and desire to do the little tasks at hand.

I can’t watch the news outlets anymore. They all either have their noses so far up Trumps ass or they are so humiliated by him and the fact that he isn’t president that they are becoming obnoxiously whine masters that you can literally only endure them for fifteen minutes listening to their rhetoric. Biden isn’t providing much relief either and it seems he is just as capable of bonehead moves as Trump and certainly any president before them. He is just better accomplished at staying out of the daily limelight of chaos and hysteria.

I have my office and Jen has hers, they seem like safe places to get lost in our individual thoughts and relax a bit. We’ll keep trudging through life on the ranch and avoiding the war zone. Stay safe my friends and don’t take unnecessary risks right now. The coronavirus blues (there is a song in there somewhere) has built a stronger relationship for us, but I think we both realized that patience was going to be a mainstay to survive. We also needed an outlet, where we could both focus our energy and get lost in purpose. Having gotten the vaccine and now just getting the booster has allowed some freedoms to return to life semi-normal, but then you hear that although this country is finally nearing to eighty percent, we hear the NATO and G6 leaders express concern because the world is only at ten percent and herd immunity is achieved at eighty percent. Wow, how many new variants will develop before that number can be achieved? Jen and I are planning a trip to South Africa in two years and that country is only at four percent vaccinated. Would it be worth the risk? I think so, but there is certainly cause for concern. Same with Scotland next year, a trip that has been pushed off three times already for reasons out of our control, and is seemingly getting pushed off again to the fall of next year. That is making the Africa trip push off to 2023. Maybe that will be good and give that country time to catch up on the vaccine delivery.

I spoke to some old friends, both vaccinated, but Covid broke through. This virus is scary and we are all feeling the blues as a result. How long will it last? Will it ever go away? How many more people will die in the next year or ten? It’s truly a matter of time before we all contract it; I can only hope that when I do, it is minor and passes fast. I certainly don’t need any more brain fog than I suffer with daily. I hope my dad stays vigilant in his effort to avoid getting it. He is my number one worry for sure.

 So many people singing the blues over Covid. So many people drawing a line in the sand over something they have done all their life. And why? Because a political party is playing games and we are the pawns? A narcissistic jerk only wants what he wants at the expense of anyone? Conspiracy theorists manipulating the mentally less advantaged? Under my breath, I see people rising to an occasion with good intent but bad ideas. I don’t like big government any more or less than anyone else. I doubt politicians have my best interest at heart and I certainly don’t think Trump gives a shit about me or any of the flag toting idiots that buy into the rigged election. For Pete’s sake, he was claiming foul months before the election happened, could we expect anything less than him spending his energy supporting his ego? Did anyone else notice that after he had his round of Covid positive, that his mental capability dropped even more? If that’s even possible. Come on people, take the vaccine, follow the guidelines, and look out for yourself and your neighbor.

We might just come out of this stronger in the end and when we hear the coronavirus blues played, we will remember it like a classic rock song, causing emotion of remembrance and thankfulness that we aren’t in those times any longer.