Bits and Pieces

Birthday: today is my sister’s birthday. 80! Wow! She and I share the same birthplace, Pasadena, California. While living in Massachusetts, she chose to return to California for college, remained there, and now resides in the Phoenix, Arizona region. A warm weather person to be sure!  Happy Birthday, Carol. Keep safe and keep the COVID cooties far away!!

Getting Along: if a person always picks a fight with another person, the other person will eventually become a worse enemy than you bargained for. That is why we remain civil with one another. We do not have to agree with one another, but we do need to get along with each other.

Getting along with one another provides room to compromise and address common problems together. Our social order – anyone’s social order – requires us to remain orderly and reasonable. That is the basis upon which we can transact business. Most of the time we agree on needed outcomes. Today we argue over who does what and how. Both of those do not remove the need to produce desired outcomes. Those remain needed by the social order to remain healthy.

Tell me again why our two political parties don’t get along and block each other’s efforts to do the people’s business. Really? Power? Money? Credit for good outcomes? Hmmmm.

I think we need to elect people who can negotiate and work together to achieve good outcomes. Tough fighters need not apply. Only people with integrity and accountability need stand up.

COVID Duty: we have survived nearly two years of chaos during the pandemic. We have done well, pivoted when we had to, given up superfluous things that proved truly without value, and protected ourselves and our families. More than 800,000 Americans have died. As hospitals fill up with milder cases, those would-be patients with other illnesses and medical conditions, will likely die because they have been kept out of the hospital. Those deaths will not be counted as COVID fatalities.

Those who do not get vaccinated but still expect medical attention when they get COVID, need to answer this question: should I be given medical treatment that denies another person’s life?

The reality is that what we do or don’t do does affect others. This is a life and death issue. We all should be accountable for our actions, or lack thereof.

If you don’t believe in vaccinations, then your responsibility is to do no harm to others. Isolate yourself from the general population as we handle the situation as best we can. You have chosen to not help. Don’t expect help in return when you need it.

January 12, 2022

 

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