EPISODE 317 A NOTE ON OUR PANDEMIC DISASTER: COMPARE APRIL 19 TO MAY 20 — A BETTER DAY WILL ARRIVE
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April 19 2021
Well here we are on April 19, 2021…a new and longer lockdown, our hospitals urgently appealing for help, our essential workers often infected and desperate for oxygen,
our stores closed, our fear magnified, our homes narrowly circumscribed and for some people now alone in a single room for over
a year. These are the worst of times.
Will the times get better? The pictures below were all taken today. They will be repeated a month from now. I hope in better times (i.e. May 20, 2021).
This is Episode 317. Incredible. If each episode took one page in a book that would be 317 pages. If each episode took 5 pages that would be 1585 pages. Of course that will never happened
and who would read it anyhow These Episodes have been turned out at nearly 1 per day. That is my target. I missed the target twice as I ended up in the hospital twice for emergency
surgery for a nasty gall bladder. I could not write while sedated but I certainly had lots to write about when I got home. What an experience that was…and my hospitalization was a minuscule event
when compared with the people admitted with Covid 19. Matt Galloway interviewed an IC doctor today who was trying to place an 8 year old child in a temporary home because both her parents
are now hospitalized in serious condition. And later another doctor, head of the Medical Association, had the same problem with two other children whose parents had been admitted. Both families
in the category of essential workers. Probably working for minimum wages with no place to turn. Bad times that none of us every thought could happen. Treasure each breath you take and
think of those two sets of parents.
Grim! I usually try to to be upbeat and positive. And most of these episodes will be that kind. This is a bad one.
This little creature sits on our old barn foundation at the farm. He is not a pleasant garden ornament. So let’s consider him a visual metaphor. He is that
bastard Covid 19. Can we beat him? Can we take all the isolation? All the privations?
I think we can.
Imagine a better day. On May 20 or May 30 if extended we may find a new world around us. Green leaves on the trees. Apple blossoms.
How will these trees look a month from now?
This is the grand ancient elm tree near our farm. It has survived the Dutch Elm disease. We can survive Covid 19.
The elm is just pushing out its buds right now.
IMAGINE WHAT THIS WILL LOOK LIKE A MONT FROM NOW.
Some cheerful things right now. Forsythia in Full blossom. Our old manure spreader fully revealed…sadly Marjorie wants me to move it…I have procrastinated.
Why does Marjorie hate my old manure spreader so much. I rather like it.
And finally, our neighbour Sandra, has added a bright flag with a rooster beside her egg box. We bought two
dozen today at $4 a dozen. Good times in the midst of bad times.
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