How do I feel?

A question many of you are asking yourself?

How do I feel physically?

How do I feel emotionally?

How do I feel financially?

How do I feel about my job?

How do I feel about my doctor?

How do I feel about my grocery store?

How do I feel about my government?

And I know you can add a hundred more questions at the drop of your hat.

Shoot you may even be asking yourself how do I feel about my cracked toenail.

The issue is we all have questions, very little answers and watching the news can either scare you or cause you to want to believe the President a week ago or month ago when he said it wasn’t going to be bad. All of us do not want this to be bad or horrible. We definitely want that, yet where does all this stand?

And now with many people staying home, the bad actors will be flooding the net with the divisiveness we do not need, the hate we do not need, the misinformation we do not need, yet it will happen which will only add to either the panic or the head in the sand attitude we do not need.

So what do you do? Hard to say. Heck, it is allergy season here in Texas. Is a sneeze the virus or a speck of pollen? Are my aches and pains arthritis or the first signs of a fever? Do you drive mindlessly for 24 hours to get a child to bring home from college since classes are online and the airports are insane based on news pictures? Do you wait? My thought is yes because at some point there will be a better handle on things, yet do you trust that thought?

How do you feel? Are you paranoid? Are you hiding? Are you spending endless hours watching the news or posting on Facebook?

Have you been to Church? Can you go to Church? Have you eaten out? Can you eat out? Movies? We all know sports are out of the equation for quite a while. Do you reach to scratch an itch on your face and stop with your hand in the air trying to think what to do? Are you tired of washing your hands? The answer to most of these questions is probably yes. Because we aren’t paying attention, no because we are human. Change doesn’t happen overnight.

Is there too much politicization? Yes! Yet, we need to listen to our government. So now is the time to call your Representative, your Senator, your State Representatives etc...and get to know them. Go visit them, but uh maybe wait a few weeks. We need to take back our government and make it responsive to us again and what is going on right now is proof positive of the need to engage.

As you know I have posted many different public policy ideas over the years, all with the intent of making the government accountable to main street, not Wall Street, but now we need to force that issue. Healthcare, paycheck care, supply chain care, childcare, doctor care, home care, education care, all care are now slapping our government upside the head. The government actually needs us to help them get back on track. 

Today we are unsure who to believe the President or the “fake news” or the “fake President” and science. It doesn’t matter your past political stripe you are an American, so you need to avoid the hype coming at you from all directions and pay attention to only the most basic of facts. And the facts are coming too few and too far in between except common sense, wash your hands well and long, wipe down everything and leave on the surface for a few minutes, wash wash wash, sneeze and cough into your inner elbow, “chicken wing” and go to your government healthcare websites to get info, not Facebook, Twitter, etc, use those to speak to friends and check on them, not for information.

How do you feel? Hopefully, you are overwhelmed and not sick. If you are sick, follow all the instructions you are given. Someone in your family is probably not well enough today to be sick tomorrow.

Remember pro-life means to respect life from conception to natural death, let us help all life live to a normal natural death.

Take care all.