Is that us?
We know what the Greatest Generation did - sacrificed
life and limb (both often) and future and health to give us victory in
the war. What are we asked to do? ?
Wear a mask and stay home.
Big Deal.
And. we can work from home often, we even get paid by
Uncle Sam for not working. We have 200 channel TV's and streaming, and
video games, and on line shopping, and pizza delivered to our doors,
and......some sacrifice.
And what do we do?
Complain, protest, object. (OK, that's in the
American nature, our national DNA, but over masks and 6 feet between us
and staying in??? Some sacrifice. Already in 3 major examples I know of, South Korea,
India, and Texas, when the rules were lifted and people went back to
"normalcy" horrible new virus outbreaks (and hundreds of deaths)
occurred.
The "business of America" is NOT business - it's
freedom. Yes to protest and Yes to NOT protest, to wear a mask, stay
home, stay apart, and support those scientists, health officials, doctors, RNs, etc--all those we call "Heroes"--and who
urgently ask us to stay home, wear a mask, stay apart, and NOT indulge
in mass swimming at beaches, mass church services, mass bar hopping,
mass messes.
Is that so much to ask of Americans, who still
remember what sacrifice truly meant during WW2? As we applauded Captain
Tom In England, and our American heroes of the Greatest Generation,
can't we take their devotion to America to heart, do
what little is asked today of us, and maybe, just maybe, be the
Half-Greatest Generation of this decade?
It is so very little to ask of us.
I'm just sayin'...
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Monday, May 4, 2020
A Life Is Better Than A Livelihood
Well, now that I've gotten that off my chest, let me
remind you that Sunday was World Press Day; coming just a few days
after an out-of-state firm closed the Morehead News (and several others)
pleading virus financial hardships. Maybe true,
but the Rowan County area will suffer until a new paper arises, as I
hope it will soon. I have been a broadcaster for over 40 years but I
started in journalism as a printer's devil, then cub reporter for a
small weekly paper and, TV to the contrary, local
print is the backbone of American journalism, and we all die a little
when one member perishes.
BTW, 49 journalists were murdered around the world last year, and it's in their spirit we observe World Press Day this year--and every year. Many more were harassed, persecuted and jailed than were killed. To show you the lengths some nations will go, take Iran. It went after a woman journalism activist for criticizing the religious leaders there (a warning for us here) but when the officials couldn't find her to arrest her, they jailed her non-journalist brother instead. He's still in jail, no charges, no bail, no trial date; but many there know his fate is but a warning to journalists not to push their "freedom" too far.
A LIFE IS BETTER THAN A LIVELIHOOD
Canada this week banned over 100 types of assault rifles. Its prime minister said these weapons had one purpose, "to kill as many people as quickly as possible." One massacre in Nova Scotia of 20 plus was all it took for Canada to act. The US has had how many Nova Scotias so far?? Canada, whose history of exploration and fur trapping parallels our own doesn't have a Second Amendment to be misinterpreted by a Supreme Court or an NRA, so the PM could do this. When will we learn?
A LIFE IS BETTER THAN A LIVELIHOOD
And many lives are being taken in understaffed, unprepared, under-regulated and under-inspected state nursing homes. Federal stats showed 30% or more of Kentucky nursing homes did NOT meet US standards, and that was before Wuhan. Their lobby has kept Frankfort from imposing decent standards and inspecting them properly, so now your relatives and friends may die, needlessly. A former UK journalist , Bernie Vonderheide, tried to get proper rules to be followed by the homes., but his years of work were largely in vain. Bernie, they should have listened to you more. We all should have.
A LIFE IS BETTER THAN A LIVELIHOOD
I'm just sayin'...
BTW, 49 journalists were murdered around the world last year, and it's in their spirit we observe World Press Day this year--and every year. Many more were harassed, persecuted and jailed than were killed. To show you the lengths some nations will go, take Iran. It went after a woman journalism activist for criticizing the religious leaders there (a warning for us here) but when the officials couldn't find her to arrest her, they jailed her non-journalist brother instead. He's still in jail, no charges, no bail, no trial date; but many there know his fate is but a warning to journalists not to push their "freedom" too far.
A LIFE IS BETTER THAN A LIVELIHOOD
Canada this week banned over 100 types of assault rifles. Its prime minister said these weapons had one purpose, "to kill as many people as quickly as possible." One massacre in Nova Scotia of 20 plus was all it took for Canada to act. The US has had how many Nova Scotias so far?? Canada, whose history of exploration and fur trapping parallels our own doesn't have a Second Amendment to be misinterpreted by a Supreme Court or an NRA, so the PM could do this. When will we learn?
A LIFE IS BETTER THAN A LIVELIHOOD
And many lives are being taken in understaffed, unprepared, under-regulated and under-inspected state nursing homes. Federal stats showed 30% or more of Kentucky nursing homes did NOT meet US standards, and that was before Wuhan. Their lobby has kept Frankfort from imposing decent standards and inspecting them properly, so now your relatives and friends may die, needlessly. A former UK journalist , Bernie Vonderheide, tried to get proper rules to be followed by the homes., but his years of work were largely in vain. Bernie, they should have listened to you more. We all should have.
A LIFE IS BETTER THAN A LIVELIHOOD
I'm just sayin'...
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