News today is that people are being a bit dumb and using roads as racetracks. The good news for the drivers was they were sarcastically breaking the law to make a point to the police – so obviously they can be forgiven.
Today was a busy day. First the garage was tidied up to get ready for the high point of the day, then I emptied my new shed and old shed – spreading everything out on the lawn (I notice from Facebook I wasn’t the only person to do this today). I then managed to store everything back in the new shed – ready to demolish the old shed.
Then came the high point of the day – the Morrisons delivery. The first stranger to visit my house in 40 days. I arranged for the delivery to be made to the garage (now tidy). One item was substituted, but sadly my San Pelegrino was not available, nor was an alternative. So what is it with everybody buying sparking water? At least all my veg arrived. At the moment I have another two deliveries booked from different supermarkets to test them out – that works out as one shop every three weeks. I can live with that for most things, but really would like more regular vegetable deliveries. Monday will be time to call the local greengrocer to see if their deliveries are sorting out.
No toilet roll in this delivery, however I have identified a secret store of hand sanitiser that others do not seem to know about. I managed to pick up 2 litres for £9. If I ever get out of the house I should have enough for a couple of years now.
The remainder of the day was devoted to the garden until the light failed. I managed a post midnight walk – interesting how quiet it is late at night.
Anyway, back to sarcastic comments. Lets take him at his word – he was only joking around with journalists. How does that make somebody suffering at home feel, or somebody that has lost somebody they love? Or maybe we could believe he actually believes the Genesis II religion and their MMS “medicine”. That would be even more worrying. Any group that claims the virus is fake, but you can take bleach to cure yourself is a group that, in my opinion, is hard to believe, and having a leader that believed it would terrify me.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories going around – some further out there than others. It is worth asking how these things change the world, will they change government action or are they just hot air (miserable hot air at that)? We see similar stuff in newspapers. The virus is damaging the health of people and killing a lot. But during lockdown one of the things that affects more people is the anxiety, the stress, the worry. It makes their life miserable, and maybe in some cases even worse.
The way I have taken to judging things is to consider how they change my mood. Do they lift me up or pull me down? I understand (but don’t excuse) newspapers that are trying to sell with the shock horror probe approach (interesting seeing that a couple of them seem to be getting desperate for sales), but world leaders need to build people up at this time.
That has to be the main job of a leader – to build people up – the response to the virus is the job for people that understand the science.
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou