14 January 2021
Someone on Facebook posted some comment today about hating some particular thing. It doesn’t really matter what it was about but it got me to thinking about hate.
I remember as a kid often disliking something, not wanting to do something, being reluctant about something and even saying “I hate that!” but not really, truly hating anything or anyone (except my brother when he tormented me. I actually love my brother and haven’t really tried to kill him in years.) I do remember being admonished in Bible school, by my teachers, by my aunts and uncles, and grandparents that it wasn’t a good thing to use the word hate.
It seems the word hate has become more prevalent, but more disconcerningly, used with more intent. Times change. I remember my Aunt Sue chastising me for saying the word pregnant. That just wasn’t done. Now the word fuck seems to be used in everyday conversation.
I was always taught the saying “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” That was a lie. Words do hurt – badly. I know because a lot of words were used against me as a kid. Words like sissy, queer, faggot, cry baby, stupid.
One of my colleagues at the college where I taught invited me on a camping trip down to the Keys. Along the way, we fell into an easy conversation and one of the topics he brought up was political correctness. He was against it and wanted to know my opinion. I was for political correctness because I had been on the receiving end of unpolitical correctness for most of my life.
I explained to him what it felt like to hear faggot jokes told in my presence – some of the relators unknowingly doing so and some knowingly doing so. My friend knew I was gay and as he begin to think about my response, I’m sure he thought of times he had told a few faggot jokes. I didn’t really change his mind about political correctness but at least he did a pause and thought a little more in depth about the topic.
I probably am guilty of saying I hate Donald Trump or Republicans in general. I’m sure I didn’t mean it in the literal sense but I do strongly disagree with him and the Republican party. When, exactly, did we being to hate so much?
Words have consequences and I think Donald Trump and some of the Representatives and Senators are beginning to find that out. I think we all need to be a little more judicious.
The pandemic continues to spiral out of control. The Trump administration has now lowered the age for vaccination to 65 (something the incoming Biden administration planned to do) and now there is genuine concern that those who received the first dose will not be able to receive the second dose.
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The county in Florida with the most number of cases and deaths is Miami-Dade. The second is Broward. Both counties yo-yo as far as percentage of population – going up one day, dropping the next and then climbing the next. There still doesn’t seem to be any one good indicator as to the progress of the disease.
The Florida Department of Health web site doesn’t list total number of cases of the virus nor does it list total deaths, only daily totals – too depressing for Governor DeSantis otherwise.
The website created by Rebekah Jones, the person fired by the state of Florida for blowing the whistle on incorrect data on the Florida Department of Health Website, lists 1,1612,813 total cases as of 12 January 2021 and 23, 759 deaths.
The Johns-Hopkins’ website provides no date for their data but list 1,517,472 cases and 23,396 deaths.
As you can see, there is no consistency in the data. If there is no consistency in the data, no consistency in how states administer vaccines, and no consistency who gets the vaccines, how do you control the pandemic?
At least with vaccines, we have hope. It’s amazing the feeling of liberation I got when I received my first dose. I’m even beginning to toy with the idea, once I get my second dose, of getting back out into the great outdoors. Imagine a world where you can sit down for dinner with friends again!
The sourdough starter is doing well – too well. I have so much left over starter it’s beginning to take over the refrigerator!
My song recommendation to day is a little dig at the Donald. It’s Gene Watson’s “Turn Out the Lights, the Party’s Over.”
Stay tuned and stay safe – until you get both doses – and stay safe anyway.
