Well…I’ve come to a realization after watching the idiot trump and the entire federal government fail at the response to the deadly virus that is going to kill many, many Americans….they just don’t know how to respond…this is what you get when you purge the entire government of expertise and replace it with political appointees that have no experience or desire to do their jobs…none of them, starting with idiot boy, even care that they are in way over their heads…they just go out and lie to make the moron in chief feel better…as the head of FEMA did today when asked why they haven’t invoked the Defense Production Act to commandeer factories to make medical supplies that are necessary…and his answer was that they didn’t need to since companies were phoning him to volunteer to do stuff…what stuff he wouldn’t say…and then went on to say that it would be worse to have leftover supplies in warehouses than people dying from not having protective equipment….so things that should have been done months ago like asking doctors and hospitals what they need and getting every damn factory started on making respirators, masks, shields and the rest of the PPE’s needed just wasn’t done because the entire repub party believed that the virus was a hoax…or because trump believed it was and not one of these assholes had the guts to tell the moron that he was wrong and was going to get people killed. Now, it’s left up to governors to try to save their states since idiot boy just stated “we’ll step in when you fail” to the governors who are asking for something that the federal government has always done….and I’m sure the problem is that the states that are asking are blue states as I’ve said before…watch for the response when it’s Florida or Mississippi asking…you can bet the incompetent in chief will fall all over himself to help them since their governors will kiss his ass and tell him he’s doing just the bestest job…we’re all gonna die….
Monthly Archives: March 2020
March 22nd
Well…running about normal for a Sunday morning and that makes me a little late…yeah, I get it…that doesn’t make a lot of sense but I don’t make a lot of sense at times…I did sleep okay last night and stayed in bed until after the coffee started….it is a little weird how quiet this house is and that I don’t need ear plugs to sleep anymore…and that a coffee maker in the kitchen is loud enough that it wakes me up now…with the social distancing stuff going on now, the traffic on the street has gone down by a huge amount and that is much quieter, too….that is something I would like to continue but I know it won’t once things start to go back to normal…my allergies are just damn ridiculous right now and I really do wish I could take something for them during the day….I am so tired of coughing and having a stuffed up head and it is wearing on me….I did get some stuff put away yesterday and will finish it up today if cooking doesn’t get in the way…I did get a bike ride in yesterday, too and am going to try to do that again today but I need to do it before 1:30…napcar is trying out I racing with video games on the tv this afternoon and I understand that it is pretty realistic…they are even going to have live announcers for it and I need to see that…should be funny and something to do anyway….I am going to cook today with making turkey soup and a homemade pizza…decided on turkey soup since that will free up enough space in the freezer downstairs to freeze 3 of the containers…will make ham soup next week to use up the celery and carrots before they go bad…and I am going to try bread flour to make the pizza today just for the heck of it…not sure if it will work better but trying new stuff cooking is always fun…I’m sure it will be edible and that’s all that counts…more later…
Social distancing….
Well…as you can see, I’m not counting the days of the recommended social distancing anymore because it appears that it is going to last a couple of months and I don’t want to get depressed when I see how many days it’s been…I did text all of the kids yesterday and they are doing fine and are all working from home…my son in NYC is taking a couple of weeks off since it is a hotbed of the virus infection and he is trying hard to avoid it…and I am a little concerned about him but what can I do? Talked to a few friends over the past couple of days and, with them being normal people who go out and do things, it appears that this stay at home thing is much harder for them than it is for me…at least at this point…I really haven’t had any social life for a couple of years now so I’m used to being by myself…and part of that was the need to save cash until I officially retired and got some money coming in…oh, and that reminds me that I need to bitch about something…it appears that the stimulus that is wending it’s way through congress and is supposed to put money in people’s hand to spend to keep the economy going is mostly a bailout of business and individuals have had to file taxes last year to get anything…and that leaves out all of us who are living on Social Security since we don’t pay taxes on it…and we are the ones who can use the money the most and will spend it….so, the repub bullshit that this is going to help people is blown up…and they are giving billions to cruise ship companies that are not even American…but they are well connected in conservative circles….did you expect anything else? Oh, well…I won’t starve but I do worry about the older folks who could really use the cash and I fault Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for letting this happen…okay, that’s enough for now….more later…
It’s all wishful thinking..
Well…it appears that you are going to get a bunch of these every day since I have time on my hands as I wait for the weather to get better so I can start on the outside of the house…have been seeing stories about conservatives who are getting the virus and appearing to change their ways from the selfish, conspiracy theory morons that they have been for decades…yeah, I don’t believe a bit of it…it’s all wishful thinking on the part of the media that they have the capacity to be compassionate human beings and to put aside their hate if even for a little while….after all, 95% of repubs think the idiot trump is going a “great” job of handling this crisis and how can you square that with the facts on the ground that his 6 week delay on doing anything and his lying press conferences are getting people killed as we speak? This whole thing is just the typical conservative’s behavior to hate people and programs that enhance the public good until they personally are affected by a crisis and then it’s a miracle….and they make a big show of “changing” until the spotlight is off them and then they just go back to their anti science, hate filled lives…so, media, spare me the “foxhole conversion” stories about conservatives…they are and will always be terrible people and no virus is going to change that…
March 21st
Well…running a little late today and it’s another one where I just can’t get started…slept okay last night but I think I’m still making up for the sleep deficit I’ve had over the past week or so…still feel pretty worn out and my allergies are in high gear…was miserable all day yesterday until I took one of the remaining allergy meds…I do still have 24 of them so I can get by for almost a month but I’m going to be miserable again when those are gone…and it would be nice to not have to feel like crap all day…I did get out to get some supplies for the downstairs project yesterday but I still need to get out to get the tomato and other seeds I need to plant the garden in the spring…I’ll do that Monday but then will be in here for the duration…didn’t get out on the bike yesterday with the wind being so high and it looks like I won’t be able to get out til late in the day today with it being so cold out there…damn, I am tired of the cold…I really need to have some warm weather soon or I think I’ll be pretty depressed….I mean it’s almost April so come on weather….I am going to get to some work here today and get all my supplies and tools put away so I can clean the kitchen and make it look less like a construction area….but that will probably be it for the day…unless I get a burst of energy and that looks pretty unlikely….more later…
We’re not a shipping clerk?
Well…now I know we’re all doomed when the person supposedly in charge of making sure that the country has enough medical supplies to fight the virus flippantly dismisses the state’s requests to do something to help by saying “we’re not a shipping clerk” and pushing it back to the governors to do it…if this is what the asshole trump thinks is not his job then what the hell is? The federal government has always stepped in when an emergency happens and the states either don’t have the resources or the ability to deal with the emergency themselves…and I’m sure part of it is that the states that need the most help right now are blue states that didn’t vote for idiot boy and he doesn’t think anyone is worth anything unless they voted for him…and he always makes everything about him…how he’s doing, what the effect of any action is on him….okay, repubs..by voting to acquit this moron you have blood on your hands…the blood of thousands of Americans that are going to die because you put politics and personal gain ahead of your duty to protect all Americans….I wonder if we can survive until we throw moron boy out in the next election?
March 20th
Well…man, I just can’t get started this morning…okay, just poured the first cup of coffee so that may have something to do with it…I did sleep better last night but I think it will take a couple of days to fix the sleep deficit I’ve had lately…it rained so hard around 5 or so that it woke me up and just did it again a few minutes ago…and that is a new sound that I haven’t heard yet since I’ve been living here so it will take a while to get used to it…I can see myself sitting on the front porch watching the storms if I’m still living here this summer…I did get some good news yesterday that I have been waiting for quite a while for…got my checking account up over 10K with the latest deposit and that makes me feel a little more secure than I have in a while…I know there will be loads of cash going out in the next month that will deplete it some but the fact that I got there by being careful with spending just makes me want to continue it…so, I will…didn’t get much done yesterday but the grocery run but I forgot almost all of the stuff I need to make pizza so I’m going to run out again this morning and that will be the last time I’ll need to go out for a month or so with the virus getting much worse…Meijers is going to make Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 7-8 just for us old folks to get our grocery shopping done and I am going to take advantage of that next week if I need to go out….but, I’m hoping that I will not need to…they are doing a good job of cleaning the carts, etc. but I am taking my homemade sanitizer, too just in case….not much to do today….just cleaning and putting tools away and maybe a bike ride if it stops raining long enough…more later…
Social distance…day 4…
Well…yeah, it looks like this is not going to be a series after all…there just isn’t enough happening to support it…but I will come back and do more of them if there are any developments…but, let’s get to today…I did make a run out to Meijers to get some more groceries to support the menu that I want to do over the next couple of weeks…and it looks like they have a handle on the supply problems they had from the run on paper products and some perishables and the shelves are starting to fill again so it looks like everyone has filled up their storage and are starting to get the idea that there will be tp and food available….and they even had a person disinfecting the shopping carts and getting them ready for people to use…I did bring my own bleach soaked paper towel just in case and I used that to wipe off the buttons on the ATM that I used to get some cash out and to do my hands after I finished…I am going to be careful since I really don’t need to get sick…I think I’ll make sure to take that with me whenever I go out….made up a quart of bleach/water and put it in a spray bottle so I could do the door knobs and handles here after I was done with the groceries….but I don’t think I need to go out after tomorrow since I forgot a green pepper and pepperoni and I want to make a homemade pizza next week…even got some bread flour to try out the bread maker sometime in the future, too…I can now do at least a month here without going out for anything other than to ride the bike…I do hope they send a thousand bucks to everyone to try to stimulate the economy since I can use that to pay for my new bike, new tires for the car, a big new air compressor, and a weight machine and still have 50 bucks left over…and they may do it twice…that would be cool…
They knew weeks ago…
Well…the latest story that has just come out on the news wires is that a repub senator knew how bad the coronavirus was going to be and he warned a group of his donors about it over three weeks ago…so, the repubs knew that this outbreak was going to be bad long ago but didn’t do a damn thing about it…no testing, no ramping up of protective gear for doctors and nurses, and no crash “all hands on deck” moment…just lies and preening by trump and his cronies to try to make it all about him…and the “wonderful” job he is doing. So they deliberately didn’t do one damn thing that could have saved lives….while the idiot trump waited for the moron Jared to get a “plan” together to fight this virus…what the hell does jared know about it anyway? Not much since he has been googling what other countries are doing and talking to his family about what to do….geez I can’t wait for these entitled assholes to be gone…and Sen Richard Burr, who was the repub senator who told his donors about how bad this is going to be, should resign today since he did nothing, no call to the WH to get their asses moving, no press…no nothing…just let people die while he scoops up cash…just like the rest of the repubs. They all need to be gone in November…and we can make that happen…vote!
March 19th
Well….I’m exhausted this morning with another morning of getting up at 4:34…and that means only about 8 hours of sleep for the past two days and I’m going to pay for that later…and it was the third day of no ibuprofen or allergy meds along with no cocktails and that has left me sore and coughing with my allergies being so bad….and it is going to get worse as the pollen from the trees and everything else gets started…..and I’m already miserable….didn’t get much done yesterday but start putting the tools and materials away…kinda….I moved the bookcase into the utility room that I am going to use for storage but with no sleep yesterday, my motivation was pretty damn low…I did get a bike ride in and hope to get out in shorts before the rain comes in later today…we’re supposed to get almost an inch of rain over the next day or so and maybe even some thunderstorms tonight as the temps crash Friday back into the 30′s….I am going to try to get out to Meijers this morning to do a little more stocking up and I am going to try some obscure stuff that I think most people won’t be buying like bread flour and yeast to make bread and pizza crust…and I need to pick up soup materials for the two batches I’m going to make next week to put in the freezer….I have one container of ham soup left in there that I am going to thaw over the next few days so I can start fresh…the instant pot is going to get a workout over the next month or so…not much to do today…just the errands and a bike ride…need to get materials for the downstairs project and hit the dollar store for a big mixing bowl and some measuring cups that I don’t have…then, I think I’m in here for the next month…more later…