The news that grip you into a panic is too much. People wonder why we have such a mental health problem, well here is the answer. Things are so bad is that you cannot escape it. I don’t believe in looking through the world with rose colored glasses, don’t get me wrong but for a long time and especially since Covid and January 6th, it seems like every single day and night the negativity is on the rise and I blame technology and especially the media for most of it.
Scare, Scare, and it is taking a toll. I know because I am worrying over everything it seems these days. First of all they should take all ads for the pharmecuticals off the air period. The side effects seems as bad as whatever disease they are trying to treat. Each station either leads with Covid, or January 6th and the former guy or the latest shooting. I quit watching cable news some time back but it creeps into the local news or turn on your computer and all kinds of horror flashes on your browser. I have been very guilty of falling into the negative trap but this “ if it bleeds it leads” has gotten out of control. I do blame the former guy for part of this sensationalism. If you turn off the TV, then you have to turn off almost any tech device you have including your phone.
We do not get enough of this nice thing happened today. It goes totally unnoticed. We are so informed or misinformed that we are afraid to leave the house or take a walk. I mean when I can’t try and tune into the local weather without a scroll line telling me about a 4 kids getting hit and killed by a hit and run driver almost daily here in Florida, or a 14 year old trying on clothes and getting shot dead by over zealous cops and top that off with new variants and changing news from the CDC, on top of every other problem life presents, it is just plain not healthy.
Do I want to be informed? I don’t know anymore. If the so called experts are experts depending on what political spectrum one falls into, then no I want real truths and not wishy washy, “ We need more studies”. That is not helpful. Common sense should tell people that are able to go get vaccinated or boosted or at least mask up and stay home if not feeling well, before going out in public then we have lost our footing.
I wake up in the mornings and think, “ I am so tired of information, misinformation, crazy people that I think I would be happy living in the middle of nowhere away from these so called conveniences and opinions along with misinformation and cruelty on what appears to be every front. How many times in a day do we hear if we are watching a good program on TV, “ Ask your doctor if you have these symptoms and every medical problem from cancer, heart disease, to not being able to be satisfied in bed with your partner. It is ridiculous. People have to be told about this? The division in families and homes is unbelievable and arguments arise out of what meal one is planning because one has been told that slice of bacon will kill you.
Look, there is nothing we as thinking people can do about people not getting prosecuted and only the powerful and well connected making rules or lack of rules based on maybe 1000 different interpretations of a study. We can’t shut all this off. It makes money. We can’t dodge it unless we go off the grid and we still have to work or live and shop and it just pisses us off when we have so many divided people and opinions. No. President Biden, we cannot just get along and work together. We are either in a panic or suspicious and living in a country one man and his followers whereas pretty much destroyed any kind of trust.
When my husband returned from Vietnam he was very suspicious and still is on what he is being told. He was lied into Vietnam just as every other veteran who have fought in useless wars. It is not just in America either. It is worldwide that every country has their own way of dealing of whatever disaster is happening.
Bullets flying, people dying, media lying and who knows who is spying? I know I am depressed. I know I am fed up. I live in Florida and too old to move. Move where? Common sense has left the building. Before anything makes the news ...Make sure it won’t change in three days. Don’t drown us in bad news, as we would appreciate a headline from anywhere that something good is happening. We are told we have a major rise in Covid but it isn’t changing people from doing the right thing. We can go see some doctors and they are not even masked or vaccinated. Our first responders are half and half. Some masked, some not. In Florida, most not. We have a raving maniac still mad because he lost the election causing mistrust everywhere and things do not seem to be improving. Why are we not pushing Build Back Better more and quit focusing on the crazies who are trying to destroy us? Why is everything BAD ...BAD ...BAD… Look people I may be depressed a bit but I think telling us that we don’t have enough staff in hospitals with no answers is not helping.
I sit outside to watch the squirrels and butterflies and a sherrif’s car pulls into the wooded area behind us. I didn’t see if guns were drawn. I go to pick up detergent and people are walking around unmasked and touching everything. Many are arguing. I walk to the mailbox and nearly get hit by someone driving about 60 in a 25 mile speed zone. There was a Christmas parade down here in this small town and the police stopped a copycat driver trying to ran the crowd. I turn on the History or science channel and bombarding with big pharma ads or breaking news. I am really really tired of all this information that reminds me of the day JFK was killed and I thought that drumbeat would never ever get out of my head.
If you exercise a little on the porch…..something will distract you and then you are thinking about all the bad news. Do I have an answer? Yes. Knock it off. Lock up the traitors and problem, nutty people, cut the big pharma ads, and try to live. I don’t know when I will ever eat in another restaurant, and try to push the bad things out of your head. We had issues before we were bombarded by the crazy people and greedy asses who have made things worse, This is not the UNITED States of America. It is anything but united. Do I have an answer for that? No. I just want a little peace before I leave this world and hope my minor kid has some sort of normalcy restored in this country. I guess it’s true. Only the strong survive. Oh I am OK considering we lost a child this year, courts tried to give a Trumpster convicted criminal to a non biological stepdad who ending up being charged with 10 charges who had to be shown he was nuts. That is settled now after he nearly drove us all crazy and nearly destroyed our granddaughter who just lost her Mom. I have lost numerous friends and family and the rest are acting like nothing is happening or paranoid to step outside their door.
Scream away at me, trust me I am not that depressed. I am just tired of how we got here in this country and how do we get out of this Twilight Zone. My husband used to say and started saying again that when the insane become the majority, the sane go to the hospital. I surely hope we are not that far gone but if not we are mighty close. Is this negative? Yes but it is reality. Face it, we have lost our way because of the crazies and some are so afraid of them, they are willing to hide under the covers than bring charges or worry about their place in politics.