It is a cool, cloudy Monday morning. The end of today, April 6, 2020, will mark the end of the third week of the “New Normal”. In contrast to yesterday, the Storey house is anything but quiet this morning.
Little Chirp got up early and made himself a couple of fried eggs for breakfast. Little Chirp is always pretty good about getting out of bed in the morning, he did so with an extra spring in his step this morning. For Easter week, I have made up a little game, which has Little Chirp excited. He won the first round last night. There are 10 plastic Easter eggs on the kitchen island. Each day one egg is the winning egg. Through out the day the boys can earn clues to help them guess which egg it is. The first child to homeroom gets the day’s first clue, so Little Chirp made sure he was the first one in the kitchen this morning.
The boys are both doing their 45 minutes of reading. They are both reading books today that are written by people I know, so they can actually talk to the author about the book. The genre of Little Chirp’s book is fantasy/fiction, not his cup of tea, so I am curious to see what he will think about the book that he is reading. He is excited about being able to email the author.
Brainy Bird just had me mute the sound on the news, but it is still not quiet in the house. The iRobot vacuum cleaner has not finished its morning cleaning cycle, and Storme is playing with the markers in Little Chirp’s classroom, while Little Chirp reads. Plus there is the sound of me typing on my computer, and Little Chirp popping his knuckles.
I am realizing that I have grown to like the quiet. Prior to the “New Normal”, I could not stand to work when it was quiet. I would go sit at a table at a restaurant to work just to have background noise. I wonder if the “New Normal” will have a significant impact on people’s working styles and lifestyle choices as I myself have gone from someone who could not stay at home a single day to someone that does not necessarily feel the need to leave the house.
On the world front, the MSN headline this morning is, Virus Tears Across the U.S., and States Are Scrambling. I do not know that to be the case. I asked the boys during homeroom this morning, “We are here in the U.S. Do you all feel the virus is ripping through here and that we are unprepared?” Both of my children shook their heads no. The media is out of control, and it is my opinion that they are the biggest drivers of the debacle that we are in now.
Other aspects of the media that make little sense to me are how quick they are to run stories that it is unlikely that people in the U.S. have already had the Coronavirus back in the December and January timeframe. I believe that I am one of these people, and I have a group of friends that were are very sick in December, who think the same thing. One of the group members went skiing with someone from Wuhan. Additionally, one of Little Chirp’s besties was so sick he went to the hospital in December after a trip to Disney World.
Do we know for sure that we had the virus? Obviously not, but the media has zero medical evidence to say one way or the other, and for them to run stories that discount this idea is frustrating. Of course, if the virus has already been here for months and months and we have survived it with our normal lives, this would not freed the media hype and fuel the shutdown of our nation’s economy that we are experiencing now. If it were true that we could sustain our normal lives during the virus outbreak, the media’s complete control over our entire nation would weaken.
As long as I am ranting, which I swear I try NOT to do in my blog. But here I am, ranting: I am really over the Facebook posts that talk to us all like we are little children about staying home. The virus cannot be contained unless the plan is for the entire world to stay in lockdown for the remainder of man’s existence on planet Earth. Shutting down the economy is going to kill more people than the virus. I do not need people on Facebook to be the safety patrol. These people are part of the problem as they are under the control of the media.
The few countries without lockdowns are reporting no worse situations than we are. Most of our country is on lockdown, yet according to MSN the virus is ripping through the U.S, so what is the value of the lockdown?
I want to again state:
A virus, which originated in a communist country, now has a large portion of America’s population without their basic freedoms. LET THAT SINK IN.
My perspective is that we can not stop the spread of the virus, we can only buy time for research and preparation. Everyday that we buy time is at the expense of our economy, mental health and our precious civil liberties.
Sorry for the rant. The media mind control that the vast majority of our nation is under right now is way more terrifying than a virus with a survival rate beyond 98%.