Rosemary, I really do have to thank you for bringing to us, The Bibliophile's Night Out. This really is so much fun! The Six On Sunday sounds like it would be fun as well.
Seeing otters playing, you certainly were give a special treat on your morning walk. My hubby and I were sitting out by the pool this morning, watching a squirrel eat from the sunflower plant that appeared out of no where. He was determined to have himself a feast. I had NO idea squirrels ate sunflowers, and I don't mean just the seeds, this little guy was going for the flower. He managed to get one of the smaller flowers off the stem and proceeded to sit there on his hind legs, just eating away. I am just so amazed and how much we enjoy watching these little creatures in my backyard.
Ginny, I am so sorry to hear of your car issues. Repairs do have a way of adding up quickly. I can't imagine having to drive a car that stalls out at each stop. I'm not a confident driver anyway, so that did sound a bit challenging. I did have to giggle a little visualizing you attempting to sanitize that car.
How nice to have lunch with your son. The name of my book was
That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo. You won't regret purchasing it. I hope all goes well with getting your car back.
Reading how some of you have not been out into the city, or other places since March somewhat surprised me. We have been safely going places with masks and self distancing for awhile now. As a matter of fact, did you all see the new guidelines that came out from the CDC?
New COVID-19 testing guidelines released this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say that people without symptoms do not need to be tested even if they have been in close contact with someone who tested positive, quietly reversing previous guidance that recommended testing “for all close contacts of confirmed or probable COVID-19 patients.”
The agency’s revised guidelines go against public health experts’ consensus that people with COVID-19 tend to be most contagious before they begin to show symptoms, as well as the fact that some people will never show symptoms at all but can still spread the virus. That is why experts have recommended widespread testing as a crucial element in containing the disease.https://www.aol.com/article/lifestyle/2020/08/26/cdc-quietly-changes-testing-guidelines-to-exclude-people-with-no-symptoms/24600565/Something is not adding up here for me. Something seems to be very off....we have more than enough tests for people to be tested, yet now we are being told you don't need to be tested, if you come in contact with someone who has tested positive. I do NOT want to make this political in any sense, I just feel the CDC, WHO, scientists and doctors have not been completely honest from day one. I understand it takes time to learn about a new virus, but to now tell us we don't need tested, seems very odd. A few weeks ago, when my son, dil, and granddaughter all got a phone call telling them they could have come in contact with a person that tested positive for covid, because they were in a business the same day an employee was working, (two different places), but was not asked to quarantine, or get tested, I thought that was very odd. I questioned then, why would they not tell them to do either of these. Then just last week my friend who owns the flower shop, got a phone call a customer was in her shop, tested positive for covid, but she did not need to quarantine or get tested, really surprised me. I know the virus is real, I do NOT question this, but I am beginning to question motives, actions and information we are being given. IF you come in contact with someone who has tested positive, and you do NOT quarantine or get tested, you could very well have the virus, and spread it before you even know you have it, by these new guidelines. So are we now trying to spread the virus to others?
I go from being nervous, to wanting my life back, then back to being nervous. I saw something today that made me even more frustrated. It was a post that said our new norm has changed, and we can't expect our old norm to return. WHY? Why do we HAVE to accept this? Why can't we have our old norm? WHO gets to decide this for all of us? Since when do we become a people without control of our own lives, our own normal?
Why are we being conditioned into believing we MUST be mindless sheep and follow the herd? Is fear the new norm? Does fear get people to fall in line, stay quiet, be good little soldiers and not make waves? Does fear determine our new norm? Is the media going to spoon feed us our daily helping of fear? Sorry for the barrage of questions, but this really did set something off in me when I saw this. In just six months have we become so fearful and complacent, we are willing to stay in our houses, our safe circle, so as not to catch a virus.
In Franklin D. Roosevelt's Inauguration Speech he said:
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So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is … fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Have we allowed fear to paralyze us? Just a thought....
