Thoughts On The Covid

 Has the entire world lost their ability to think logically? As the days slip by and everything seems to spin faster and faster out of control I can't help but wonder...is this really happening? Why is the world being told to stay in their homes? Why are businesses shut down and churches not able to meet and people living in horrible fear alone? Yes yes I KNOW about the scary virus going around. I know! I also know that there is the flue and cancer and many other things that kill us in great numbers every day ~ and yet we have not been quarantined for that. I also know about flattening the curve and about protecting the elderly etc. However it is all being taken too far. This is my opinion and really who reads this and who will care? I am writing this because it matters a lot to me and I want to put it out there.

 It is late at night. I just got my two  youngest children down to sleep (for a little while at least). I feel like the reality I am in is beyond ridiculous and today I just hit a wall. People are acting as if each other have the plague and yet all these people are perfectly healthy. They are shaming others for making their own choices about their health. They are your family, your friends, and have been social distancing for well over a month! They are not sick! If they are they would not be out and about! Why are we still social distancing? Why is our economy crashing around us? Why are freedoms being stripped away more and more? Why are parks closed, lakes, trails? Why are people really believing they should not be out in nature and in the sunshine? Why are elderly people staying terrified in their homes shut off from the world? I KNOW about the virus but I also know reality. The hospitals where I live are not overrun, but people are losing their homes. Children are being traumatized to some degree and have lost the lifestyle they had taken joy in. We have deprived people of the right to celebrate, grieve, even die, with family present! So much of life is at a standstill.

  I am not okay with any of this. I refuse to live in fear. I understand that if you are immune compromised you should not be out and about right now. You should wear a mask if you do go out and take extra precautions. You can visit with people you feel are safe, maybe outside, six feet apart if you feel best about that. You can get your groceries delivered for a while right to your door.  You can take supplements to boost your immune system. You can't do this forever though. At some point you just have to trust that life is life and we all need to live our best ones. We who are healthy and not immune compromised? We should be out there living life to the fullest as well! We should be fighting off this virus with our immune systems and enjoying the Spring. We should be more aware of our frailties and changing the way we live to be more prepared for things like this. However we should not be living in fear and losing so much!

 I fully believe I had the Corona Virus in January of 2020. It was not fun I can tell you, and I was sick for two months. It is not something to joke about and to be honest I am not very strong in many ways. I lived though and the rest of my family fought it off. If you KNOW you are not strong and need to be cautious then do it! However if you are a relatively healthy person just know that it is okay to hug people, to live a normal life, to wash your hands and be aware of germs if you so choose to be. It is okay to help a friend in need, let your mother help with your children, help your friends move, etc etc etc. It always has been okay. It still is. Do not give into this crazy shame and fear.

It is okay to live? Isn't it?

  What is happening all over the world is weird, and messed up, and something feels underhanded and not at all like we are being thought about and cared for. It is like we are being tested to see how easily we can all be controlled
by fear
well I am not willing to be controlled by fear, I gave into it all at first
Not anymore!
I am respectful of what I am being asked to do. I am being wise and caring.

It does not mean, however, that I am okay with any of this at all.

  For those of you who are alone, who have lost your jobs, who have not left your home in weeks and weeks, who don't get to have a graduation, who have lost a loved one and can't even really grieve, who had to give up on the wedding of your dreams, and every other normal thing...and who are losing the ability to even imagine normalcy again...
I am so sorry

To the World:
You are strong, you are capable, you are smart.
You are brave

And those are my thoughts on Covid 19 in the year 2020