And here’s my GirlieOnTheEdge six sentences on the blog prompt “Safety.”
- We’re conditioned to trust the U.S. government to keep us safe with ships and drones and bombs.
- We have soldiers and bases in nearly every country in the world (and they’re still bombing.)
- Our sanctions deny medical supplies and devices to Iran, Venezuela, and whatever other countries our administration doesn’t like.
- Now we have a threat we can’t resist with bombs and sanctions.
- While the government dithers, the U.S. has sustained 785 COVID19 deaths (as of five hours ago); worldwide 19.656 have died.
- Do you feel safe yet?
So much to think about here in your SSS.
At this point we are staying home except for going out to groceries ever so often during the time senior hours are offered, getting prescriptions at the drive-up window, and once in a while going to get our mail at he post office. Other than that we mostly stay home and stay inside. We feel fairly safe, but we look forward to when society as a whole can resume their normal activities, jobs, pay their bills, and can receive their needed doctor appointments which are deemed not as necessary nor as safe for them or the medical staff at this time.
Yes. I’m mostly home. Bouth groceries for myself and two neighbors this week. I think nest week I’ll do it with mask and surgical gloves. I was able to find both yesterday. In limited supply. couldn’t find hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol.
Bought groceries, not bouth them.
Good to see you at the SSS, Faith.
Not quite. This event is unique for my lifetime and quite the eye opener. Imo, life as we knew it has been permanently altered. The question is how will we move forward?
Hopefully more neighbor caring for neighbor because its really hard to figure out the needs of an entire world at once –except, obviously, separating the sick and carriers from the well. We need millions of tests!
I quit trusting that bunch in Junion High! Jaded and Bitter a touch. Good post. I do think they are doing all they can, and am not sure anyone could have been prepared for something like this.
It will pass. It will leave scars, but it will pass.
Coulda done more if they hadn’t disbanded the organization set up to anticipate and prepare for pandemics, but probably living up to their capabilities at the moment. I fear there will be a lot of deaths before it passes. Since I’m in the high-risk age group, it hope I’m not one of them.
I feel safer here in Canada than I would in the USA.
I agree. If Trump (and our governor by the way) convince people to go back to work, this will get much worse.
A timely post in trying times when safety is a grayed out word.