I Miss the COVID! 2020 06 04
Already I am beginning to miss the COVID. Hate is worse.
Like a scary story told to children at night, a peek under the bed has shown no COVID. My old monsters are there, quietly sleeping, but no COVID to be seen. It has all been a figment of the imagination, a representation of old demons in new shades of black to instill new fear.
Strange to think that I would miss a monster, either real or imagined, that was threatening my rights under the 1st (speech), 4th (search & seizure) 5th (due process), 8th (cruel or unusual punishment), and 9th (other rights) Amendments to the Constitution.
Strange to think I might miss the many contradictory messages, such as, “We are all in this together” while “sheltering in place,” causing us to fear every human being because of a microbe measured in nanometers.
Strange to think it was not so bad when healthy people were put under house arrest, then forced to wear face masks if they ventured outside, lest they be shamed for the potential harm they are doing to others.
And the Medianites have forgotten the 2.1 million Americans who did not die of the COVID. They no longer speak of Italians dying by the thousands, but neither do they mention that the Italians “flattened the curve” long ago.
Were our extreme measures so effective? Countries without such measures suffered no worse fate, perhaps not even as bad as ours. And what of the dire warnings about all the states “opening up?”
(Don’t you just love all the new phrases we have been learning?)
It is the new monster that is really unsettling. It is a demon of violence who has come out from under the bed.
We saw the (alleged) demon on video kneeling on a man’s neck and killing him.
Again, we saw the (alleged) demon killing defenseless people in the streets as the demon destroyed the fabric of the economic
structure underpinning people’s survival.
The demon will teach us either to kneel on the neck of a person of one color or profile, or to beat and kill a person of the other color or profile.
It matters not to the demon of hate which choice we make, so long as we limit our choice to one of the two.
Fear of the COVID is failing, failing.
Hate is rising in its place to accomplish the same goal, to create a new fear to destroy the inalienable rights given to us at the foundation of the world.
Do not succumb to hate or to fear.
Force may be necessary, as when the legion of demons were cast out of the man in the country of the Gadarenes, and the demons fled into a herd of swine, and then ran over a cliff and died. Casting out demons does not look like peace, but peace is impossible otherwise.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear (or hate), but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
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Already I am beginning to miss the COVID. Hate is worse.
Like a scary story told to children at night, a peek under the bed has shown no COVID. My old monsters are there, quietly sleeping, but no COVID to be seen. It has all been a figment of the imagination, a representation of old demons in new shades of black to instill new fear.
Strange to think that I would miss a monster, either real or imagined, that was threatening my rights under the 1st (speech), 4th (search & seizure) 5th (due process), 8th (cruel or unusual punishment), and 9th (other rights) Amendments to the Constitution.
Strange to think I might miss the many contradictory messages, such as, “We are all in this together” while “sheltering in place,” causing us to fear every human being because of a microbe measured in nanometers.
Strange to think it was not so bad when healthy people were put under house arrest, then forced to wear face masks if they ventured outside, lest they be shamed for the potential harm they are doing to others.
And the Medianites have forgotten the 2.1 million Americans who did not die of the COVID. They no longer speak of Italians dying by the thousands, but neither do they mention that the Italians “flattened the curve” long ago.
Were our extreme measures so effective? Countries without such measures suffered no worse fate, perhaps not even as bad as ours. And what of the dire warnings about all the states “opening up?”
(Don’t you just love all the new phrases we have been learning?)
It is the new monster that is really unsettling. It is a demon of violence who has come out from under the bed.
We saw the (alleged) demon on video kneeling on a man’s neck and killing him.
Again, we saw the (alleged) demon killing defenseless people in the streets as the demon destroyed the fabric of the economic
structure underpinning people’s survival.
The demon will teach us either to kneel on the neck of a person of one color or profile, or to beat and kill a person of the other color or profile.
It matters not to the demon of hate which choice we make, so long as we limit our choice to one of the two.
Fear of the COVID is failing, failing.
Hate is rising in its place to accomplish the same goal, to create a new fear to destroy the inalienable rights given to us at the foundation of the world.
Do not succumb to hate or to fear.
Force may be necessary, as when the legion of demons were cast out of the man in the country of the Gadarenes, and the demons fled into a herd of swine, and then ran over a cliff and died. Casting out demons does not look like peace, but peace is impossible otherwise.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear (or hate), but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
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