Both poems about Despair
This version of "Destiny" written 20 October 2021
Destiny
Life is inherently fatal,
You are born to die.
It is your Destiny!
Each day merely puts off the inevitable.
This version of "Trapped" written in Summer 1985.
Trapped
Trapped in his skull
Like a man in a cell,
Staring out glassed over eyes,
first one then the other. Both poems about Despair
Trying to move his body,
Even a finger but
The wires are cut
Someone else controls his body.
Both poems about Despair
This version of "Destiny" written 20 October 2021
Destiny
Life is inherently fatal,
You are born to die.
It is your Destiny!
Each day merely puts off the inevitable.
This version of "Trapped" written in Summer 1985.
Trapped
Trapped in his skull
Like a man in a cell,
Staring out glassed over eyes,
first one then the other.
Trying to move his body,
Even a finger but
The wires are cut
Someone else controls his body.
Back in July, I had three bottles of 50 blood test stripes each. Then, I did an inventory and found I only had two bottles. I figured I must have left one at my sister in law's house. She said I had not. My meter sends each blood test to a central computer. So, I figured they must have screwed up the accounting.
The problem is, I have written too many programmes to believe their far more sophisticated programs could screw up. Bottom line, they still resupplied me in spite of me having an unopened bottle according to their records.
I was sorting stuff that had accumulated underneath my chair and found the unopened bottle of 50 test stripes. I now have 150+ test stripes and their records say I have 150+ as well.
The relief was incredible!
I also found the carrying case they sent me so I can figure out how to put the gear in it. I have been putting this equipment in the box it came in and it is getting ragged...
Plague Years
There have been an amazing number of plagues in the past several centuries. There wss one in 1832 which no one spoke of or wrote about. My Grandparents or Parents never mentioned the Spanish Flu to my brothers, cousins or me.
In 50 years people will have forgotten about covid-19:unless it and it's variants become endemic.
Official start
there are a numbrr of places which give the official starts to the Pandemic. I am going to talk about my perspecctived.
in late january 2020 there were news reports of an epidemic in Wuhan China. This souned like a respiratory diseas3 thqt degene4rqtes into pheumonia. i had 2 cases of the flu that went to pneumonia betweeen 1998 and about 2006. i stqart4eed gettingt th eflu shots religiously and that stopeed my getting the flu. I also took pneumonia shots when they were availa le. Before the ccovid-19 I was given a pneuonia shot that proteted againsst the five most common pneuonia virus.
I was calm and figured my shots would protecct me from what trump was already alling "Hung Flu" or "the Chinese Flu". <Note to me: look this up!>>
I was wrong!
In February 2020, there were news reports of an epidemic in New York City. there were reports of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) shortages. I remembered having bought two N-95 breathing masks years before. I found them in the garage; they were still in the origional packages. I decided to do a good deed and took them to the loccal hospital to donate them.
The usual entrance was locked and the rooms beyond the doors were dark. there ws a sign instructing visitors togo to a seonddary entrance, whicg]h i did. At tghe end of a corridore was a desk with a young man in his early 20s. I walkd to him and said "I'd like to donate some n-95 masks to you" anh put them on his table.
h replied "we dodn't need them" and pushed them into a garbage can . I had not epected this bllshit and retried the.
'The news says you need these protectiv masks."
"we don't", he replied.
"Fine," I said, "I'll just tak them to the Cancer Centgr" across the streeet."
He immdiately said "We'll take them" anf took them from me.
I guess he realized thee masks were aactually valuable and he did not want to be accused b y his bcoss of turnign away soethg valuabl;. I thought about postiny this onn facbfook but didn't see any point. I would probbly post this transation today.
Taking masks to hospital mid Feb 2020
Surgery
Loss of smell, taste and appetite
Out to Mr Gas and pharmacy; I dressed up.
Out by myself, my driving sucked
Times out to dinner
Check appointment dates with VA
Leaving house to !ow yard
Pattern of life in lockdown
Katie's need to be out of house
Several times getting take out from Appleby a
Wearing mask
Losi MN g weight
Trump Trains
Country losing it's fucking mind
on
Canon
Mask wearing
Plastic spit shields
Waiting for tests
Kathie getting the Plague
Watching 7 pm MSNBC and Rachel
Trump and awful suggestions
BLM and Anteva {sp}
Going to ICT for VA appointments
On <date> the US covid-19 death total exceeded the number of Service members who died in 'Jam (Vietnam War). I had the vague hope Trump would give A sad speech about this but he didn't. He did blather on in a "I love me" speech.
My impression and that of a number of others was Trump simply did not cate!
My weight loss and hA1C reduction
Getting asked for first Modetna and second
Katie's first and second Modern a
Gigantic Trump Rallies, we which became super spreader events
Resistance to masks and vaccines
People apparently thinking their immune systems and prayer would keep them safe
People going into the open without masks 😷
Masks In wore. Jock Strap. Others.Navy Vet. Lions masks b
Fear from going into places like "Red Beards" coffeevwhile wearing a mask toget coffee and chocolate muffin
Sitting in museum looking outside whilst thinking of the gigantic ball of life and death and how it' UV could be killing the covid-19.
Delta variant and how it is leading to multiple deaths
Going to Lions meeting and de-masking on faith alone 😉.
Story I started and why BBC I guitar it
The kids not getting vaccinated
Wearing masks at the USA-Canada Lions Leadership Forum in Des Moines Iowa 2021
Plans in 2019 whilst on a European Cruise to save up for acruise in March 2021. We even tried planning excursion then the pandemic hit. The Cruise wad cancelked. We did take a "cruise" (in a manner of speaking) whenwe got vaccinated...
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I need to put Aunt Noreme's {sp} Coffee Cake Recipe in someplae with a footnte abouthow I like to publish this. Also put the "Andrson Metbod" in.
I wonder if theLions could host A session about writing A Pandemic Journal in remembrance at theLibrary? Who could come up with a suggested outline?
People upset at suggestions they get vaccinated.
Unvaccinated people catching the Delta Cariant, going to hospitals and taking g ICU beds that should have gone to cancer, heart attack, car accident, shooting victims all v because they were convinced not to get cvaccinated!
Tell me again how we have the world's best medical care? If you can not pay for your medical care with cash or insurance you are fucked. This does not happen in Canada or the UK or Europe. Why do we tolerate this? Ah, yes, this is the way the Republican d's and their rich supporters like it...
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10/11/2021: I thought I would never get this Bluetooth Keyboard connrcted! I don't know if I can replicate this feat!
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10/11/2021
An all too frequent event is occurring in Texas: an active shooter situation in Arlington Texas.
CNN broke in to their regular show to report this event. All that has been reported is this High School is in lockdown and Police from multiple agencies and the ATF "are pouring in'. No casualty reports ATT (at this time).
Texas is a gun loving state so their folks are often fire arms skilled. I fear there will be multiple casualties but we can hope the shooter(s) missed!
The good news is we have had comparativey few such killings this year.
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The shooter was caught. He turned out to be anv18-year old who got into a fight with one and possibly as many as three boys. He pulled his piece and fired. I won't call his targets " innocent" because when teen aged boys fight in high school then one or more ate likely bullies or gang members. The shooter looks to be a "minority" and thus responding to aggression. No, I am not defending the shootet, I am simply offering a rationale for his "wild west" action.
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On a happier note, this is the 42nd annivwesary for Kathie and me.
I boughtt flowers for Kathie.
She ordered a cake, whiick I picked up along with Vinallia Ice Creamme. I'm taking left over casserol for lunch.This was our dinner last night.
We went to "Prime On The Nine" which is a fancy restaurant over looking the golf course. We had steaks (Prime Rib), loaded baked potatoes and I had a lager (Stella Artois).
We had cake and vinallia ice creame when we got home.
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10/11/2021 A Thursday...
On a different subject, Senator Dr. Roger Marshall told his followers that President Biden's recent Presidential Mandate requiring vaccines and mask wearing is unconstitutionsl Marshall finally noted these violate the Tenth Amendment - State's Rights. He was correct. However, if one we're to apply the Tenth widely then I fought if the "War On Drugs" would pass muster. There are other actions taken by the Government that are also suspect.
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I got the latest flu shot a week or so ago and my wife is getting her's this afternoon.
My second Moderns shot was seven months ago as of 5 October 2021 and my wife's six month wait ended on the same day. We're going to drop by Ford County Medical or our "Moderna Boostet" (i.e. Moderna third) some time next week.)
There are news reports of a drug that can be taken at the first signs of the Pandemic. They supposedly cure the common variants. New variants are coming - this is just a continuination of the current trends - and I suspect that theanti-vaxers will ensure the Pandemic becomes endemic.
There was a time last year when foreign countries would not let US Citizens in because the Pandemc was out of controlin the US of A. That reportedly abated. The persistence of anti-vaxers may well bring a return to this!
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I will be getting off work about 1:30 pm and will go to Dillions Grocery to buy groceries for dinner tonight (Lazanna).
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CNN had a quick story this morning. A teaching hospital in Colorado is refusing g transplant surgery to those who test positive or are unvaccinated against covid-19. They said that immune surprise isn't drugs are given to those who receive transplants and this raises their chances of dying from covid-19 by 20 percent. In other words giving the unvaccinated a transplant is a waste of a very valuable organ...
A month or so ago an unvaccinated person went to board a cruise ship for a transatlantic cruise to Europe. She tested positive for covid-19 and was told her ticket was recinded and that she would be refunded the money she had paid.
She would lose the money spent on her plane fare as she could have, should have, been tested before leaving home. Had she "tested positive" back home, she would have been able to get full refunds on plane tickets, hotels and cruise. (This sounds nice and I wonder if the plane fare and hotel reservations would actually have been refunded? I am cynical..🤗 )
She didn't grasp the notion that she would be spreading the virus in every Room she went into. There could be unvaccinated people there or people whose vaccines have not fully kicked in.
There would be no way to tell when she would sicken and have to go to medical. She would need frequent mimic medical exams (temperature and listen to breathing).
If she got sick then th medical staff would be devoted to her and not to many other passengers.
Bottom line: she was an avoidable catastrophe that was avoided!
10/11/2021 Once again I wonder why so many people believed bullshit aboutvtesting, vaccines, social distancing and staying home. Mass gathering could have been fun but being in hospital lying in bed sick is not fun and dying in an induced coma whilst having the tube of a ventilatio machine in your throat can hardly be called fun.
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10/11/2021
A numbrr of members of the Armed Forces are refusing to get vaccinated. Real news reports are speaking of members refusing to get vaccinated and commannds apparently are not doing a very good job of finding out why they are refusing. these senior officers and NCOs truly need to find why so they can counter these beliefs. Thet need to do this "sooner rather than later!"
When I went to Navy Boot Camp at Orlando Navy Boot Camp and was in Company 170-70 (company number 170 of year 1970, Company Commander MMC P.G. Smith. "Company Commander" or CC was the Senior Drill Instucctor), we were orderd to take off our shirts, roll up our t-shirt sleves and we were marched in single file between pairs of Medical Corpsman. Each Corpsman had a Gas jet Injector and gave the recruits between them a shot into either arm. It was not too bad..
No one was allowed to skip any of these "shots" simply vecause they did not wannt it!
Now, a number of military people are refusing to take the shots. They should simly be ordered to "take the damn shots" or be subject to frequant Quick Response Tests (Q-tip up the nose) and being told tht liberty in foreign lands is curtailed due to that foreign ccuntry not allowing unvaccinated Sailors and Marines ashore or to leave bases oon thir land. (Actually this will probably not be much of a threat since these foreign countries want the money US Military (Cash cows) have too much of,,,.
We are going to County Medical next week to get our third or "booster" shot of the Moderna series.
We'll take our cards, get them updated and I'll scan them in.I plan on printing these images at Walgrens. We will have them handy if we go on a cruise next March.
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