Dr. Birx & Random Thoughts

On December 28th, 2020, I hope to turn 55 years of age.

I hope.

I have hope. The hope I have gives me joy.

Several years ago, for a variety of reasons, I took time to self-examine my thinking and my life journey.

I’d like to share some of my observations from being self-isolated from humanity.

1. My body is closer to dying than away from my birthdate. It is simple math and benchmarking.

I do rituals like eating a healthy diet, stay hydrated, keep my weight managed and exercise daily.

I try to keep my life in balance and focus on a positive mindset. (I’ll not comment on genetics and random good or bad luck.)

But I don’t want to hasten my death. And I don’t want to harm anyone else.

2. I added this picture because it tells the story. It’s an invisible snow blizzard that can kill you.

These viral snowflakes have spikes that attack human cells.

I could be Coronavirus asymptomatic and accidentally infect another innocent person.

A child or a senior citizen?

I’ll keep hunkering down.

“Be ye kind, one to another…”

3. In my time on earth, the two words, ‘political-thought’ are oxymoronic.

If there has ever been a national call for congressional term limits – we are watching the case study.

An eighty-something is the Speaker of the House, elected in 1987, and we have an eighty-something Senate Majority Leader, elected in 1984, playing political gamesmanship while people I know have a zero income, no job, and are told to self-isolate. And that assumes they don’t have any children to feed.

My definition of hell on earth.

4. The country of my origin, the United States of America, has a 73-year-old president that likes to pretzel style his hair into a yellowish wasp nest like thingy and personally earned a lot of Federal Reserve Notes being a reality television star. I don’t like his tweeting, or his combative nature. And yes, I voted for him.

But, I think he’s done a good job managing the unimaginable.

I express that sentence based on watching the daily evening news conference and how he respectfully treats Dr Birx. She’s kept me sane through this mess, she’s brilliant, factual and not a drama queen (that’s neither a masculine nor feminine concept).

After this pandemic calms down, she should be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

NS