Today is Saturday, so I'm staying away from most of my online groups, taking the day off for myself in order to try to stay in the right headspace, at the beginning of this mess the media was like watching the prologue of "28 Days Later" if you haven't seen the movie I really recommend it.
Now, admittedly, I am slightly less than normal, I don't think the way most people do, I'm just wired differently.
I am seeing memes and reading reports on medical shortages. As always there are people looking to our political leaders to cast blame and get an answer, people on the left are casting shade on President Trump for the measures he is taking to provide care to the public, and on the right, they are swinging just as hard in the other direction. That he was sent to us by God to save this country.
The fact is that President Trump is a businessman, he is politically, and religiously conservative, he is donating his Salary back into other parts of the government, because to be absolutely, unflinchingly honest the country hasn't been solvent since FDR drafted his New Deal. We don't have a Budget, we have a Credit Card. He is doing his best to bring us into the black after a century of redline spending. With that, in a medical crisis, most of his decisions and orders are from an economic position with the attempt to keep COVID-19 from pushing the country back into the dark days we say following Black Tuesday. Is he always right? No, he's human. Is he always wrong? Well, even a broken clock is right twice a day, but economically speaking he has done everything he has promised up until now. News Outlets are phrasing some incredibly inflammatory headlines from innocent statements and factual responses. They do this not because of "Fake News" but because as we all know; drama, sex,, and violence sell. And unfortunately in this time of "TLDR" most consumers never read more than the headline and base their opinions on things that are one word away from being Libel. And it's not the divergence in opinions that irritates me so much as the lack of educated response, on either side.
I am not one to ever speak poorly of our leadership, I do have some very strong opinions on matters that if voiced will immediately start an argument. I am more conservative than liberal, but I am a moderate and categorize myself as an Independent: and how I vote reflects my opinions and not the opinions of some antiquated societal expectations. I was raised by parents who emphasized personal education and the importance of not getting involved in something without first educating yourself. (Politics were always on the table in my house).
And because I need some time off from all the Leftist propaganda, hate, and recirculating of unfounded, biased, and libelous journalism, as well as a break from the Right and their profoundly Christian Ethos. I am letting you play in Piper's brainpan today!
My very fun thoughts on the Virus!
Based on what China is telling us, the Virus originated in Bats, and we know that Trump has authorized using the blood of Survivors (recovered patients) to treat the infected, We also know (I haven't talked about this one much) that there are 2 identified strains of the Virus, type L and type S, but in Iceland alone they have discovered among there 600 and change cases that there are over 40 molecular mutations of the Novel Corona Virus.
I think, just playing in my little writer's brain that these strains and mutations could open things up to Real Life Vampires (Those dependent on blood for survival evolved from Bat DNR/RNA affecting Virus), and possibly Zombies (System inflaming species hopping Viral Infection). Then because of the DNA/RNA mutations we could even theorize the possibility of something like Lyncanthropy.. Werewolves if we wanted to. While we have no real basis of the later effects of these fictional illnesses, in the creative mind of the writer it opens up plenty of factors that contribute to building a fantastic story, things like government and military response, social and economic effects, legislation and prohibition, suspending of personal rights and so forth.
What do you think? How would you write it? Please comment below!
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