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Gerard Goulet's avatar

"I'm thankful for all the things I don't have!" I don't have Covid. I don't have to worry about putting food on the table. I don't have to worry about my adult children. I don't have to worry about being homeless. I don't have to worry about a major health issue. And many, many other things too numerous to mention that I'm fortunate - and lucky - enough to NOT have . . .

I wake up each and every day consciously and humbly grateful for all those things I DON'T have -- TODAY. Because -- I also realize that much of that could drastically change - TOMORROW.

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Michael McGuire's avatar

I don’t ever recall a period in my life in which a consistent, lingering cloud of doubt has envelope society, me, in a mist of anxiety. I have no sense of cohesiveness in America, the world, in fact, in coming to common cause on much of anything of importance. When I was a child, we were among the very first recipients of polio vaccine in America. Even at that young age, it was clear, and we were universal in our hopes, that the horror of polio would be chased out of our lives. We had no idea how it worked, why it worked but we sensed the fear in our parents, felt protected, sheltered from the demon that stalked children in the summers of my childhood.

We accepted our roles, small children, lined up, cooperating, confident. COVID seems to have unleashed irrationality, conspiracy madness, an unhinged acceptance of self-induced fear. One has to measure their words carefully, probe obliquely, bury true feelings, opinions when interacting with others. To not be circumspect when engaging others is to be drawn into a confrontation, full of negative energy, frustrated and challenged to avoid reality, discuss and exchange facts and to be categorized.

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