{"id":8550,"date":"2021-04-19T10:02:36","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8550"},"modified":"2021-04-19T10:07:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:07:26","slug":"episode-317-a-note-on-our-pandemic-disaster-compare-april-19-to-may-20-a-better-day-will-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=8550","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 317 A NOTE ON OUR PANDEMIC DISASTER: COMPARE APRIL 19 TO MAY 20 \u2014 A BETTER DAY WILL ARRIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"
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EPISODE  317    A NOTE ON OUR PANDEMIC DISASTER:  COMPARE APRIL 19 TO MAY 20 \u2014 A BETTER DAY WILL ARRIVE<\/div>\n

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April 19  2021<\/div>\n

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Well here we are on April 19, 2021\u2026a  new and longer lockdown, our hospitals urgently appealing for help, our essential workers often infected and desperate for oxygen,<\/div>\n
our stores closed,  our fear magnified, our homes narrowly circumscribed and for some people now alone in a single room for over <\/div>\n
a year.   These are the worst of times.<\/div>\n

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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).<\/div>\n

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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<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n
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\u2026and my hospitalization was a minuscule event<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n
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<\/div>\n
think of those two sets of parents.<\/div>\n

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Grim!   I usually try to to be upbeat and positive.  And most of these episodes will be that kind.  This is a bad one.<\/div>\n

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This little creature sits on our old barn foundation at the farm.  He is not a pleasant garden ornament.  So let\u2019s consider him a visual metaphor.  He is that<\/div>\n
bastard Covid 19.   Can  we beat him?   Can we take all the isolation?  All the privations?  <\/div>\n

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I think we can.   <\/div>\n

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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. <\/div>\n
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How will these trees  look a month from now?<\/div>\n

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This is the grand  ancient elm tree near our farm.  It has survived the Dutch Elm disease.  We can survive Covid 19.  <\/div>\n
The elm is just pushing out its buds right now.<\/div>\n

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IMAGINE WHAT THIS WILL LOOK LIKE A MONT FROM NOW.<\/div>\n

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Some cheerful things right now.  Forsythia in Full blossom.   Our old manure spreader fully revealed\u2026sadly Marjorie wants me to move it\u2026I have procrastinated.<\/div>\n
Why does Marjorie hate my old manure spreader so much.  I rather like it.<\/div>\n

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And  finally, our neighbour Sandra, has  added a bright flag with a rooster beside her egg box.  We bought two<\/div>\n
dozen today at $4 a dozen.  Good times in the midst of bad  times.<\/div>\n

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alan  skeoch<\/div>\n

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