Corona to do list

Well, I successfully completed my first round of tasks during the corona lockdown. So I decided to make another list.

1. Learn everything I can about North Dakota.

2. Order my free book on Mesothelioma.

3. Take care of that sagging area under my chin.

4. Count the number of hairs on one leg—haven’t decided which leg yet.

5. Write down all the regrets I have.

6. Make some suggestions for a corona vaccine and send them to the NIH.

7. Start a Joe Burrow memory book.

8. Draw some pictures of puppies.

9. Binge watch all the episodes of Twilight Zone.

10. Memorize the sequence of nucleotides in my own DNA.

Mental illness

The media has covered illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease to the extent that we have understanding and empathy for those who suffer from them. These illnesses often bring the sufferers face-to-face with death.

This is not the case with serious mental illnesses—schizophrenia, chronic depression, bipolar disease and PTSD—which are not so well understood by the public or covered by the press. When individuals with these illnesses are homeless, commit crimes or threaten others, the response is more fear than empathy.

The reality of these mental illnesses is that the sufferers are dead to the healthy persons they once might have been—or maybe never were. Death can be a constant companion in suicidal thoughts. The sufferer never knows when the voices or episodes will come. Sufferers never know when an all-encompassing darkness will steal their lives away.

The specter of mental illness has increased and touches more people during these COVID times. Be alert to symptoms in yourself or others. Be sensitive. Seek help. Dismiss any social stigma. Believe in your good self.

POTUS and FLOTUS

Questions from the Washington press

Caused POTUS incredible stress

So while we stayed at home

He decided to roam

His corona plan under duress

Air Force One got fueled up to go

At a million of taxpayer dough

He would tour a plant

Save time for a rant

And brag that he’s in the know

FLOTUS went along for the ride

Walking with fashionable pride

Maskless and close

We all got a dose

Of a double standard applied

Citizens suffering

Citizens suffering under the corona pandemic want the government to take action to help them out financially. But we the citizens are the government. It’s just our money helping one another.

We are borrowing money—going into further debt as a country—to deal with the financial consequences of the pandemic. Who has all this money to loan to us? How did they get all this money?

The government has legislated 3 trillion dollars to help those in need. My guess is that there are tens and twentys of billions of dollars in the Cayman Islands and Swiss bank accounts that are doing nothing but making more money.

It’s the government, not of us, but of the bought legislators that has supported this inequality of wealth and its selfish distribution. The many are desperate while the few live in excess.

Little pictures

We look for the big picture, but we are always sabotaged by the billions of little pictures. It’s chaotic. Then the little pictures realize they need a big picture.  Since there isn’t just one big picture, the little pictures struggle to find one that provides a canopy to give them shade and respite.

There’s always a genius trying to find the big big picture, like cosmologists trying to find the theory of everything. All us little pictures can do is keep our minds open, do our parts to make tings better and look for that right shady spot.

Lockdown

While we are in lockdown, waiting in lines for corona tests and food aid,

POTUS and FLOTUS are off on a multi-million dollar jaunt on Air Force One and Javanka hop in the car for a little holiday.

While we are dutifully wearing our masks when we go out, VP Pence—in charge of pandemic operations—is clueless about wearing a mask in a hospital setting.

Would someone please inject all of them with Lysol?

White House news

White House news:

Melania announced that she will not be seen in public because she does not look fashionable in a mask.

Mike Pence revealed that it was God who told him that he did not need to wear a mask in public.

POTUS argued that since he doesn’t have the coronavirus, it must be all the tacos he eats that are a preventative.