Daily updates.

Daily press conferences on the CV-19 crisis.  I watch them from our SC governor and I watch them from our US president just about every day.

My opinion:  I will never understand why states should have more control then the feds when we are in a pandemic.  And just now, watching the president’s press conference, the group at the podium said they were leaving it up to the state governors.     Seriously?     it makes no sense to me.   We need to work on this virus together – as a country – and really, as the world.   It is counter-productive to have states make varying decisions.   The idea that the state you live in may decide if you can go out, or if you have enough care at hospitals just seems wrong.   States need to come together and do this together.  We are ‘all in this together’!

So, I do not agree with much of what VP Pence believes in, but I give him kudos for handling his part of press conferences.  He speaks well, with authority, to the people.  He even looks into the camera and says he is sending sympathy to those who have lost love ones.    He looks in control.  Can I say presidential?      Ha    Oh, Trump would hate to hear me say that.

I admit I’m a bit PO’d about fellow citizens who are not self distancing.   Perhaps they do not watch the news and know the importance of it all.  I will give them the benefit of the doubt that they have been busy, and not ‘up’ on the fact that we ALL must change our behaviors to beat CV-19.   But…. hey!    Stop it!   Get home and stay home as much as possible.

I live in a rural area in South Carolina.   I can not even imagine the fear so many are feeling in very urban areas.   I pray for them.         After 9/11 I decided that I would be  a lot less stressed by living away from a heavily populated area.   I have posted about it before, but living close to NYC when 9/11 happened was agonizing to me.   I developed anxiety and went on medication shortly after it.   I realized that people living so close together was a scary thing…   back then I wasn’t really thinking about a pandemic.    I worried about more terrorist attacks.   I had trouble being in crowds for awhile.   I had to push myself to go to Broadway shows and to spend the day walking around the city.   I did not like being in the middle of a row in a theatre.  I needed a quick way to get out.     So – I was happy to move south.    I figured terrorists would not hit lesser populated areas.    Of course, as time has gone by, the threat of gun violence everywhere has become our reality.   We have heard of too many mass gun attacks in all types of areas in America.  No place is safe.

I digress.    I did not think of a pandemic.     But here we are.      I’m a ‘good citizen’ and a law follower.  Always have been.   So, I believe in doing what is asked of us.  I want to do my part to make everything better.

I believe in doing the right thing.

So, now I pray that everyone listens and realizes that we have to do the right thing together.   We need to make that curve go down and it can only happen by everyone doing their part.    Everyone is equally important.    Everywhere.

You ARE important.  You can make a difference.       You can save a life…. or many.