7-Quick Takes

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1. What I got, they used to call the Blues – Paul Williams

What an apt description of how I’m feeling these days. A more archaic term might be melancholy. I”m sure many of you can relate.

2. One of the toughest things is trying to be a leader of a diverse number of homeschoolers in two different groups. Homeschoolers are known for being independent free thinkers anyway, and now we have the new homeschoolers who have joined the ranks because of COVID-19. So I am constantly straddling between the crowd that wants to do homeschool things with a group- 6 feet apart, wearing a mask, with gallons of antiseptic before and after each encounter, and the Let-Freedom-Ring gang of anti-maskers who carry on as if the only thing going on right now is tyranny.

As a woman on the very edge of the high-risk group because of my age, I lean towards caution, but not at the cost of freedom and certainly not when it comes to letting my daughter and granddaughter have some semblance of a childhood.

So I put out the mandates about distance and masking and I encourage hand sanitizing all the time, while assuring the other side that I’m not part of the mask police.

But you can’t make everyone happy. It came to bite me in the butt last month when I organized a gathering outside for the Nativity of Mary. I put out the notice about the cake being served COVID style, socially distanced blah, blah blah. A handful of people showed up, but most (including my own daughter ) went to an anti-mask party at a private home! The war will probably continue until the snow flies when it will be impossible to plan outside gatherings anyway and we’ll just be stuck in the house again.

3. Governor DeWine would prefer that everyone stay home all the time anyway, but still patronize bars, restaurants, and stores.

My reality is probably not his ideal. I have two adult children who live here and they are out in the work force everyday. They have to wear masks every day, all day. My beautiful 21-year-old daughter has to wear a face covering climbing up and down ladders to stock shelves and do other things that are required of her as a store manager. She’s exhausted when she comes home.

My son works second shift and has to wear a mask even though he is alone most of the time. He lets his nose peak out.

Additionally, they have friends who come over and then there’s my goddaughter who practically lives here as well as my granddaughter whom I homeschool while her parents work.

I also have a very social teenager. I’m not telling her that she cannot go to parties or get-togethers. We even hosted one in our backyard last weekend for a group of 10 girls, which is the maximum allowed by the state.

So I’m not living in isolation, even though I am home most of the time. It is worth it to me for my children to live their lives fully, even if that presents someone of a risk to me and Mr. Pete.

4. COVID is a 99% survivable disease. But people will bring up the outliers – people who have suffered for months, still have symptoms, or who were young, healthy and still died.

I predict that we are going to discover that people with a propensity for autoimmune diseases have a system that just goes wild with inflammation when COVID is introduced. It could be that a young person, like Nick Cordero, who have extreme reactions and die from this disease would probably have had an autoimmune disease later in life if COVID hadn’t taken them out first. That’s my theory and prediction. We won’t know for a few more years.

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7. My only political plug –

I am not voting for a person as much as I am voting for an ideology. Back in 1992 I was the type of Democrat that my grandparents and parents were – a Kennedy era Democrat. But the party moved to the left of me and it has continued to move that way over the ensuing decades.

I don’t even recognize it any more.

It’s rude, crude, loud, and even violent. The temper tantrum that has been ongoing since Donald Trump became president has been funny at times, but mostly disturbing. And the media has been so complicit in this, that at times it reminds me of the old Soviet Union new agencies that we used to laugh at as a kid. It’s all left, all the time with nothing balanced about it.

Joe Biden is a sick elderly man who won’t last as president for 90 days let alone four years. That would make Harris the president and I think she is a vile and unprincipled person.

And of course, there’s the abortion question. I cannot give loyalty to a party that supports the slaughter of the innocent from conception until crowning. Any candidate that aligns themselves with that party has some kind of conscience flaw that would make it impossible for me to cast a vote for them. Only very limited circumstances would I ever consider it.

Here are some of Trump’s accomplishments and reasons I am voting for him in 2020.