Orchids to …
• Tim Jarnigin.
• all essential personnel, police, fire, EMS, animal care, all emergency room staff.
• all the wonderful shoppers at the west side Walmart letting the associates know that they’re appreciated.
• Gary and Marilyn Cheek for always helping my parents out and being wonderful neighbors to them.
• U.S. Navy Capt. Brett Crozier for sacrificing his career to protect the lives of sailors under his command on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
• Mrs. Chastain at Parkside for dropping off supplies to Hailey so she could complete her science project.
• the Republic for the coverage of the pandemic.
• bus driver Brian Kane and the Mt. Healthy teachers for the parade Friday, blowing the horns and waving at all the students.
• those federal elected officials who didn’t claim to be an expert in every field known to man, from ISIS to COVID-19, while denigrating those who actually know their fields.
• onion writers who entertain us while they’re trying to figure out who to blame.
Onions to …
• the stores not limiting the number of customers inside the store because from the looks of your parking lots, it is obvious people do not have the common sense to do it on their own.
• those who can’t do the job, so change the job description.
• ham radio operators who really need to take computer classes.
• those especially in deep-pocketed, propertied class neighborhoods where bright red political yard signs have exploded like dandelions.
• people who can’t take off their blinders and actually watch the daily announcements from the federal elected official because his predecessor is so missed during this time.
• health care workers that decide to take the easy way out and change career paths during this time of uncertainty.
• the federal elected official for strongly urging us common folks to wear a face mask or other nose/mouth covering but he just doesn’t want to do it himself — effective leaders lead by example.
• Those calling for herd immunity, not realizing that it requires 60%-80% to have been infected and recover, meaning 18-34 million infected Americans and at our current fatality rate that means 462,000 to 616,000 dead. The only realistic approach is a vaccine and that takes time, stay home.
• too slow, too little, too late, too many dead.
• the hospital that didn’t prepare for a pandemic.
• the failed and inept federal elected official who is only concerned about himself and cutting Social Security, Obamacare, and veteran’s TRICARE Health and Medicines insurance.
• our do-nothing representative for his rose-colored letter about the virus and his brother’s foot-dragging in making test kits and ventilators available where they are needed most.
• the federal elected official who has already replaced the vice president on the virus response team with his own son-in-law.
• elected officials who are not informing people about one of the most obvious virus contaminants — money in circulation — we should all use credit and debit cards.
• owners of non-essential businesses that remain open and should be arrested for doing so.
• bike riders on the People Trails that need to use the bike lanes — I’m not moving into the mud to stay 6 feet away.
• the cowardly elected officials who earlier acquitted the federal elected official, and now our country is suffering further with his inept handling of the pandemic, resulting in unnecessary deaths and economic damage based on his delayed response.
• the people who abuse attendance policies during this pandemic.
• the federal elected official who seems more concerned with the start of pro football than with the people who are dying in the pandemic.
• those who aren’t aware that during Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, only a priest and a funeral home employee were present at the funerals.
• those that don’t realize while face masks are better than nothing, they are far from being 100% effective.
• those that don’t realize that with everything that’s been canceled or moved into the future, this may become “the year that never was.”
• America’s leader for not being more like the Queen of England.
• the people in nice neighborhoods who park their vehicles in their yards blocking public sidewalks, decreasing the value of homes.
• the federal elected official whose foot-dragging response to the virus was intentional.
• the virus, if it was China’s response to Trump’s trade war and tariffs, they will have won.
• the medial official who the only guy in the world who doesn’t think a common drug is worth trying to save lives.
• failed doomsday prophets and their computer-generated pandemic models.
• the federal elected officials on the news.
• people who still have only anger and bitterness to offer.
• the dog groomer going house to house grooming dogs during the quarantine.
• the person saying that our president wasted valuable time.
• the letter writer who condemns a political candidate and praises the Biblical man Lot, omitting Genesis 19:8 where Lot offers his two daughters to the men of Sodom, saying “do to them as you please.”
• the political party blatantly against accessible elections and oversight of huge government spending.
• whoever called law enforcement and had them come on out east of town Friday about someone shooting a cat.
• the big retail store that doesn’t make people wear a mask while they’re shopping.
Happy Birthday to …
• Anita Havron, from your family and Donna.
• Alan Fillenworth, from your family and Donna.
• Roger Brinkman, from Jan.
Happy Birthday to …
• Rose Bell on April 3, from Joseph Hart Chapter DAR.
Happy Anniversary to …
• Karen and Rod Wilson, from your family and co-workers.
• Melissa Johnson, from your family and co-workers.
• ANOTHER beautiful morning
