#76.20 - So, this was not the year I thought it was going to be

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So the universe has given me an opportunity to think about life and take a back seat. Amazingly all the schools have been closed. No one is allowed to go anywhere. Pubs, bars and restaurants have closed and everyone has been told to stay at home.

Everyone is terrified because the thing is invisible. Unlike the plague you know you have it or you don't. This one is invisibility means that everyone is suspect.

I don't trust the media, I never have, and now the media are the ones driving this. Their decision to make this a huge issue has made people go insane. I can't trust them on most other issues, should I trust them on this one? Are they the broken clock? Is this a case of a boy who cried wolf for me?

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Lancelot of the Lake

Also I don't understand why when it was in China no one cared and now that it is here, and nowhere near as awful as China, everyone is terrified? I don't care anymore really. I am just following instructions now and I have no choice. Ironically I am of the skeptical hue, along with the right wing instead of the terrified hue, which are most the left. The left who usually doesn't believe the media are crazy and the right who usually do, are nonchalant.

Anyway, I don't know why I am so chilled. It doesn't matter. What matters now is trying to figure out what I do with my time...

So, this is what I am doing with my time...

It is a bit mad... I have decided to be a force for good so that's what I am going to do, be a force for good.

In these uncertain times, there is no point trying to find out what the truth is anymore when everyone is in the middle of a reality tsunami. There is no point trying to explain to people what is happening. What is vital is to make sure that everyone is alright and feeling safe and supported.

So I have put it out there.

Sigh. Getting my head around all this.


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